The christmas markets in eve καοι during the holidays in Europe -some would say – the most crowded parts of the holidays and could easily become targets of terrorists.
With this thought, and given the fact that there were indications that terrorists were planning on hitting the festive days in Europe, one after the other, the european countries increase security measures in an effort to reduce the exposure of their citizens at risk.
The head of Europol, Rob Wainwright, had already warned since November that the service considers important to the possibility of a terrorist attack by islamists of the Islamic State (ISIS) and did not exclude that to be at Christmas.
“The attacks of ISIS have a twofold objective. To cause, the more victims on the one hand, and to gain as much publicity on the other hand,” said the head of Europol in the newspaper De Tijd. For this reason one can not rule out the possibility of a terrorist attack during the days of the holiday season adds.
“The terrorist threat is not limited only to France and Belgium but also in Germany and the United Kingdom and Italy, without excluding the possibility of attacks and in Spain and Portugal,” he said characteristics.
The attack on Berlin that ended the death
The truck crashed into a crowd at a christmas market in central Berlin last night, killing 12 people and injuring another 48, was probably attack, said the Interior minister of Germany.
The police said on Twitter that he has moved on to the arrest of a suspect, and that another was a man who was a passenger in the truck was killed when he fell on top of a crowd concentrated around traditional wooden gazebos, at the foot of the church in memory of kaiser Wilhelm, in the heart of former West Berlin.
The attack which woke up memories of that night of 14 July in Nice, France, when a man in the name of the Islamic State had fallen by truck over the crowd that was celebrating Bastille Day, the national holiday of the French.
Then, they had lost their lives 86 people, and the responsibility had taken over the Islamic State. And now, the nightmare of jihadists returns.
France: Increases safety at christmas markets
France will increase security measures at christmas markets across the country after the attack truck yesterday night in Berlin where at least nine people were killed and other 50 were injured, said the French ministry of the Interior.
“The franco-German cooperation will continue without interruption so that the democracies to win the war against those who want to undermine our values and our freedoms,” he said in a statement the ministry.
“All the security forces will stay at the highest point of vigilance. Safety in christmas markets will be strengthened with immediate effect,” he added.
Strengthened anti-terrorism measures in Italy
Strengthened and in Italy the anti-terrorism measures after the attacks in Ankara and in Berlin. The Italian minister of the interior Marko Μινίτι and the head of the police, Franco ΓκαμπÏιÎλι, constantly monitor the evolution of the situation.
Tomorrow we are going to hold a meeting of the committee on counter-terrorism strategy analysis, the ministry of the Interior of Rome.
The Italian media is reporting that the alert in the country is particularly high, since, in fact, that recently βίντεομηνÏματα of the islamic terrorists made direct reference to threats against Italy and the Vatican.
“Attack of shame in the heart of Europe. We are on the side of the victims ‘ families, the government and the German people, which have been affected by this tragedy,” he wrote via Twitter the Italian minister of foreign affairs Αντζελίνο of her Voice.
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Terrorism: Europol had warned for hitting in Europe over the Christmas
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