European Cities Add Barriers to Thwart Vehicle Attacks<br />A man killed five people, including a police officer, in a car<br />and knife attack on and near Westminster Bridge in London in March, and three men killed eight people in a van and knife attack on and near London Bridge in June.<br />After truck attacks last year in Nice and Berlin, the Spanish police advised cities to introduce tougher controls along key roads.<br />They added 3-ton concrete barriers, mindful of the attacks in Europe, most notably a truck assault<br />that killed 15 people last year at a Christmas market in Berlin.<br />22, 2017<br />Even before the attacks last week in Spain, European cities were installing barriers<br />to protect pedestrians after a series of attacks using cars, vans and trucks.<br />The Nice attack involved a man who killed 86 people as he plowed a stolen cargo truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day,<br />and the local authorities have invested around 20 million euros to protect pedestrians with bollards and steel fences.<br />In previous years the beer tents opened to the public at 8 a.m. No other European country has been hit by the recent terrorism more than France, where 239 people died in major attacks in<br />and around Paris in January and November 2015 and in Nice in July 2016.<br />Some cities — including Madrid, Málaga, Palma and Zaragoza — erected barriers after a pair of attacks, in Tunisia in 2015<br />and in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils last week.
