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Britain sees in 2016 with massive London police presence
Paris, France: Official New Year’s fireworks were cancelled in favour of more subdued celebrations, with private rockets and fireworks generally banned and the areas around the Eiffel Tower and the Champs Elysees boulevard barricaded. Some 150 additional police officers will be deployed to secure the event, a police spokesman said, and no one will be allowed to bring in bags and backpacks.
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In Bangkok, thousands of police were present as revelers rang in 2016 at the site of a deadly bombing that occurred in October.
Up to 5,000 police officers were in the area, with explosive ordnance disposal experts sweeping the area ahead of time.
Fireworks explode around the London Eye during the New Year celebrations in central London just after midnight on January 1, 2016.
“The people of Paris and France need this symbolic passage into the New Year”, said Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo.
Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur said it was “better not to take risks” in announcing the cancelation of the city’s New Year’s activities.
Official New Year’s celebrations in Belgium were also canceled.
Today, more than 8,500 performers representing 20 countries will take part in the annual New Year’s Day parade through London, again amid a large security operation.
In downtown Dubai, despite a blaze at a 63-storey skyscraper, the display at the nearby Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, started as planned.
In Moscow, the arrival of the New Year was greeted by silence – as the firework display was five minutes late.
Turkish police have detained two Islamic State suspects allegedly planning to stage attacks in the centre of the capital Ankara which is expected to be packed on New Year’s Eve.
Authorities in Madrid said they were fielding 15 percent more police and emergency staff than a year ago for year-end events, including the “Saint Silvester” evening fun run through the Spanish capital.
The number of police on duty in Italy has been increased by 30 percent compared to past year although the Interior Ministry stressed: “There has been no specific alert”.
The ISS works on GMT, meaning New Year is celebrated at the same time as Britain.
At midnight, more than one million are expected to gather along the famed harbour to watch a glittery display featuring a multicolored firework “waterfall” cascading off the Harbour Bridge and pyrotechnic effects in the shapes of butterflies, octopuses and flowers.
However, a similar display in Brussels was cancelled due to safety concerns and in Munich two railway stations were closed due to a “serious imminent threat”. Photo credit should read: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire Fireworks light the sky above the Cathedral Square in Vilnius, Lithuania shortly after midnight during the New Year celebrations, Friday, Jan. 1, 2016.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman lamented the prospect that fear might keep people from celebrating New Year’s Eve.
“Of course we’re scared”, she said.
In Germany, which has received many of the refugees seeking asylum in Europe this year, numerous shelters banned firecrackers and other pyrotechnics to avoid causing trauma to people fleeing war zones in the Middle East, Asia and beyond.
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In the New Year’s Eve plot, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Lutchman confirmed the bar-restaurant as the target after driving past it Monday with one of the informants.