Tighter security for Berlin celebrations
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GERMAN authorities are beefing up security for New Year’s Eve celebrations in Berlin tomorrow after last week’s truck attack, deploying police with machine guns and securing the festive zone around the Brandenburg Gate with concrete slabs.
“This year, what’s new is that we will place concrete blocks and position heavy armored vehicles at the entrances” of the celebration zone, a Berlin police spokesman said.
While the number of police officers deployed will remain close to last year’s figure of around 1,000, this year “at least some of them will be standing there with machine guns,” he added.
Germany had already put in place heightened security measures during last year’s celebrations, following the November 13 attack in Paris.
Revelers will once again not be allowed to bring in backpacks or large bags. All forms of pyrotechnics and potentially dangerous objects, such as glass bottles, will also be banned at this year’s event where hundreds of thousands of people are expected.
Questions surrounding security are high on the agenda after the December 19 attack, when Tunisian Anis Amri drove a truck into a Christmas market, killing 12 people.
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