Spain raises terror threat level after France attack, says no indication of imminent risk

People attend a demonstration in solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, at the French Consulate in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Jan 7, 2015. Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people Wednesday, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was France's deadliest postwar terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) (The Associated Press)

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Demonstrators take part in a vigil of people to show solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, at the French Consulate, in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Jan 7, 2015. Masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar!" stormed the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, killing at least 12 people, including the paper's editor and a cartoonist, before escaping in a getaway car. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) (The Associated Press)

MADRID – Spain has raised its terror threat level following the attack on a French satirical newspaper that killed 12 people, but the country's interior minister says there is no intelligence indicating the nation faces imminent danger.

Jorge Fernando Diaz says the threat level was raised from Level 2 to Level 3, with five being the highest on the scale. The move means that authorities will increase security measures at key infrastructure installations, but Fernando Diaz didn't specify which ones.

He says Spain last used the terror Level 3 measure in June for nine days when the country prepared for the coronation of King Felipe VI.

In 2004, bombs on rush-hour trains killed 191 people in Madrid in Europe's worst Islamic terror attack.