Thursday, 31 December 2015

Paris Scales Back NYE Event Amid Terror Fears


In France, the capital of the usual five-minute fireworks is evil and the Arc de Triomphe in the video player replacement, before midnight, along the Champs Elysees screen pass.


About 11,000 soldiers, police and emergency personnel are being launched on the streets - more than in the previous year 2000 - SEVEN weeks after 130 people were killed in several attacks.Around 60 million people, as a rule, to participate in the country's Ai Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysees annual event once mayor Anne Hidalgo Elysees.Paris emphasized that, despite the fireworks display has been canceled, the celebrations will continue. We decided to celebrate sobriety and atmosphere togethernessTourists and residents of New Year's will, as usual, will be able to meet the fact that we know the most beautiful avenue in the world, but this year, clearly is here.There won 'T is a great show. 'The French government says tens of thousands of soldiers across the country.The same forces, who was in Mali, Chad, French Guiana and the Central African Republic is to protect the French people,' Defense Minister Jean - Yves Le Drian responsibility .The capital of Belgium also canceled fireworks and other activities for the ten people arrested attacks.Brussels 伊万勒马耶 mayor said in Paris, made the decision following security experts.Around risk analysis, the estimated 5 million people a year participate Once the fireworks PLACE DES-Brouckere.The, will continue this year's Christmas markets.The 22-year-old suspect's house during the search, was arrested Wednesday in Brussels, and later charged with murder and involvement in terrorist terrorist organizations only event, prosecutors said .Another two held in Belgium on Sunday and Monday militants planning attacks in New Eve.They was carried out counter-terrorism operations and adjacent areas of Brabant in Brussels, as well as suspicion of the capital in the Liege region. Brussels finally canceled his New Year fireworks in 2007 after plans were disrupted free Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian former football player guilty of conspiracy to blow up military base.Belgium, and Brussels in particular, he has been attack in the center of Paris after the original investigation, two suicide bomb attacks in the French capital who live in this country.

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