Christmas Market

Traditional Christmas markets are opening across Germany on Monday, drawing revelers to their wooden stands amid
stepped up security.

Multiple German Christmas markets have been cancelled this year amid concerns over Islamist terror attacks and the rising cost of providing security to attendees.

Investigation into how the Germany Christmas market attack was allowed to happen descends into bickering and finger-pointing.

A holiday market stall erupted into flames at Bryant Park early Friday in New York City; video footage shows the terrifying scene.

Rival protests took to the streets of Magdeburg on Monday evening, which had been the scene of an apparent terrorist attack last week.

Police in Germany have admitted that they were warned from Saudi Arabia about the potential dangers of the suspected perpetrator of the Magdeburg Christmas market attack, yet failed to act on the warnings.

The suspected perpetrator of the Magdeburg Christmas market attack was reportedly a left-wing asylum seeker activist who was promoted by legacy media outlets, including the BBC.

15-year-old boy handed four-year sentence for planning to drive a rented truck into a Christmas market and kill as many visitors as possible.

A left-wing-run council has been criticised for its decision to shut down England’s oldest Christmas market over alleged “overcrowding”.

A Christmas market in Paris’s 18th arrondissement requiring that all of the merchants be black led to allegations of racism and segregation.

Hamburg’s historic outdoor Christmas market is planning to segregate vaccinated and unvaccinated people this year, with the unvaccinated banned from drinking mulled wine.

Austrian police said on Monday they have foiled a terrorist plot to attack crowded targets in Austria, Germany, France, and Luxembourg during the holiday season, including the Christmas market at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.

An Islamist in Saint-Quentin has been given a ten-month suspended sentence after threatening to slit the throats of soldiers outside of a Christmas market.

PARIS (AP) – A French judicial official says three people detained over the investigation into the Christmas market attack in Strasbourg that left five dead have been handed preliminary terrorism charges.

Seventeen million Germans, or nearly one in four, over the age of 18 do not celebrate Christmas and the majority of those are young males.

Video taken after a shootout between French police and Cherif Chekatt shows the Strasbourg terror suspect slumped in a doorway after being fatally shot.

Can you imagine how horrible it must have been for those poor souls at the Strasbourg Christmas market killed or grievously wounded by yet another of those “lone wolf” terrorists yelling Allahu Akbar?

Pope Francis has written a telegram denouncing Tuesday’s terror attack at the Strasbourg Christmas Market in which two people were killed and 13 injured.

Security sources revealed Strasbourg terror suspect Cherif Chekatt received a call from a German number moments before the deadly attack on a Christmas market in France.

The UK government has warned British citizens to “remain vigilant” in crowded places including Christmas markets while in Germany, France, and eight other European Union countries.

Two German towns have seen arrests at their Christmas markets as migrants brawled with locals in one case and in another, a migrant threatened passers-by with an axe while yelling “Allah hu Akbar.”

Organisers of the Christmas Market in Bruges have defended their decision to rebrand the medieval city’s popular event as a ‘Winter Market’ after outcry on social media called the move an attack on Belgian traditions and culture.

An Islamic fundamentalist plot to allegedly bomb a London Christmas market has been foiled, after police raided an “Islamic community centre” and arrested a number of men, with claims one could be a Syrian migrant.

Islamic State terrorists have threatened a second Berlin Christmas attack, exactly one year after the first, as security service search for suspect connected to the terror group across the city.

A 25-year-old Bosnian Islamic extremist was arrested Thursday in Graz after police discovered he was plotting to drive a vehicle through the city’s Christmas market emulating the Berlin terror attack last year.

BERLIN (AP) – A suspicious package containing nails that led to a bomb scare at a Christmas market in Germany was part of a blackmailing plot against a delivery company, German authorities said Sunday. Brandenburg state Interior Minister Karl-Heinz Schroeter

The Christmas market on la Croix-Rousse hill in Lyon, France, has been cancelled because organisers cannot afford the €20,000 security budget.

BERLIN (AP) — German police said Saturday it appeared doubtful that a suspicious package containing nails that led to a bomb scare in a city near Berlin was targeted at a Christmas market.

A Christmas Market in Potsdam, Germany, has been evacuated by police after a package was found with wires sticking out of it by an employee of a nearby pharmacy.

BERLIN (AP) – German authorities say investigators somehow didn’t spot a photo of a Tunisian terrorist suspect holding a firearm when evaluating data on his cell phone, months before he killed a dozen people in a truck attack on a

Christmas markets are closed in Germany today and police in the UK, France, Norway, Austria, Denmark, Italy, and other European nations are tightening security at festive events, with the terror threat at its highest level across much of the continent.

An Israeli citizen was seriously injured, and his wife declared missing, after a truck plowed into a busy Christmas market in Berlin on Monday killing 12 people in what German authorities are calling “a probable terrorist attack.”

Despite appearances to the contrary, the murder of the Russian ambassador in Ankara and the Berlin massacre in a Christmas market have nothing to do with religion but are economically motivated, according to the secretary general of the Italian bishops’ conference.

British police were forced to defend sending visibly armed officers to guard a Christmas market – days before the Berlin truck attack – after anti-gun members of the public and activists caused a social media backlash.

A dozen individuals were involved in a fight at the Christmas market in a small German town at the weekend, as migrant youths and locals apparently came to blows over anti-social behaviour.

The anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has hit out at German Chancellor Angela Merkel after Monday’s Christmas market attack, saying the victims are “her dead”.