Police are evacuating visitors to the Rock am Ring rock festival in Nurburg, Germany (the Rhineland-Palatinate land) because of the high risk of a terrorist attack. This was reported by the organizers in the official Twitter account of the show. Visitors were asked to go to the camping area in an organized way. It is noted that the festival is suspended until further notice. Presumably, it will continue tomorrow. Rock am Ring - one of the largest rock festivals in the world. It takes place annually in Nurburg on the first weekend of June. At the festival during its existence, The Who played, AC / DC, Deep Purple, Scorpions, Dio, Van Halen, Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne. The show, which was to last three days, sold more than 80,000 tickets. This year headlined by In Flames, Rammstein, System of a Down.

In 2012, at this rock festival as a result of a lightning strike, 42 people were injured, eight of them were hospitalized. On May 30, German police detained a 17-year-old Syrian on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act. According to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the federal state of Brandenburg Karl-Heinz Schreter, the young man was about to attack in Berlin.

The visitors of the rock festival in Nurburg were evacuated because of the threat of a terrorist attack.