Germany’s Saarland state police vice president Hugo Mueller (L) and the Federal state’s General prosecutor Margot Burmeister (R) speak at a news conference at the police headquarters in Saarbruecken, Germany, 02 January 2017. They informed the media about the arrest of a Syrian national early on 31 December 2016 on suspicion of having planned a terrorist attack on New Year’s Eve. EPA/THOMAS WIECK