Cities are shields to prevent attacks on celebrations of 2017 – Mail South

The major cities reinforce their security measures to avoid terrorist attacks during the celebrations of the New Year and Kings, some of them, such as Madrid (Spain) banned the circulation of trucks with more than 3,500 pounds of capacity.

The so-called “mile of the party” next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (Germany) was yesterday open for the festivities leading up to the celebration of the New Year, which will take place this evening in this chamber and to the strengthening of the safety device after the attack of the last day 19 in the German capital.

Thick concrete blocks, surveillance cameras and police vehicles were placed at the entrances to the great enclosure, of more than a kilometer long, which is expected to come this night up to half a million people.

MADRID

The Municipality of Madrid has banned the circulation of trucks of more than 3,500 kilos during the rides prior to the feast of Kings which is celebrated in the 3, 4 and 5 of January, to facilitate the work of the bodies of security after the attacks jihadists in Nice and Berlin.

During these three days, Madrid will celebrate the traditional parades of Kings, processions of several kilometers that concentrate thousands of people and in which multiple floats accompany the three Kings -Melchor, Gaspar and Balthasar – who, according to tradition, bring gifts to children in Spain.

PARIS

The French Government will mobilize more than 96,000 people between the police, gendarmes and military to ensure the security of celebrations to welcome the new year, said the Interior minister, Bruno Le Roux.

Those forces are going to be focusing on the places “particularly popular,” said Le Roux to the press, during a tour of the center, most touristic of Paris around the Louvre museum.

LONDON

The Metropolitan Police of London reported that it will strengthen its presence in the british capital during the celebrations of new year’s Eve after the terrorist attacks in Berlin and Nice.

Some 3,000 officers will be on duty this night in the capital, where you will have place a public spectacle of fireworks that usually attract hundreds of thousands of people.

NEW YORK

New York will introduce new security measures to protect Times Square during the celebration of the new year’s Eve in response to the recent bombing of Berlin, as announced yesterday by the authorities.

For the first time, will be displayed in the area 65 truckloads of sand and a hundred vehicles to block streets and prevent the possible repetition of what happened in the German capital, where a truck broke into a christmas market and killed 12 people.