Authorities in Bavaria, Germany, see no reason to change security plans for the upcoming G7 summit after police documents about the security of a summit in the same location leaked onto the internet in 2015.
“We are operating on the assumption that this incident is not essential to the operation that is about to take place,” Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said on Sunday. “We do a lot of things the same way we did seven years ago, but the police also do a lot of things differently,” he outlined. “Based on what has been leaked, no immediate conclusions can be made about what the police will do in the coming days.”
The heads of state and government of Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and the United States will settle in Schloss Elmau from 26 to 28 June. The castle in the south of Germany was also the setting for a G7 summit in 2015.
Security details for that summit were leaked Sunday on a site labeled as far-left by German intelligence. It is unclear who made the information public, but several security sources confirmed to the German news agency dpa that the documents are authentic. Herrmann assured that the police are investigating the matter.