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DW: German Christmas markets: City protects pedestrians with gift-wrapped car barricades
Cities across Germany are boosting security for Christmas market season, following the deadly truck rampage in Berlin last year. The city of Bochum put out massive car barricades – and then giftwrapped them.
Bochum authorities placed a string of 1.2 ton pellet bags in the downtown area to avert potential terror attacks ahead of the seasonal opening of the local Christmas market.
On Thursday morning, however, the bags took on a holiday look, with the city's official marketing service turning them into novelty Christmas presents.
"For us it was very important to fit in those ugly barriers into the beautiful overall atmosphere," said the head of Bochum Marketing Mario Schiefelbein.
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Update: Gift-wrapped roadblocks protect German Christmas markets after last year’s truck attack (VIDEO) (RT).
WNU Editor: Welcome to the new normal.
2 comments:
They are nicked named "Merkelstein = Merkel stones". Who says the Teutons have lost their sense of humor?
Merkel antonym to the word Miracle.
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