Visitors of Rock am Ring festival in Nurburg evacuated from-for threats of act of terrorism

Police evacuated the visitors of the rock festival Rock am Ring in Nurburg German (Rhineland-Palatinate) because of the high risk of a terrorist attack. This was announced by the organizers in the official Twitter account of the show.

Visitors are asked orderly be directed to the camping area. The festival suspended until further notice. Presumably, he will continue tomorrow.

The total number of evacuated visitors of the festival Rock am Ring in Nurburg German (Rhineland-Palatinate) has exceeded 80 million, reports the Telegraph.

Rock am Ring is one of the biggest rock festivals in the world. It is held annually in Nurburg during the first weekend of June. At the festival during its existence played The Who, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Scorpions, Dio, Van Halen, Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne. On a show that was supposed to last three days, has sold more than 80 thousand tickets. This year the headliners announced In Flames, Rammstein, System of a Down.

In 2012, the rock festival as a result of lightning injured 42 people, eight of them were hospitalized.

May 30, German police arrested 17-year-old Syrian on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. According to the Minister of internal Affairs of Brandenburg, Karl-Heinz Schroter, the young man was going to attack Berlin.

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