{"id":119793,"date":"2023-12-27T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/countries-across-europe-heighten-security-levels-amid-terror-warnings\/"},"modified":"2023-12-27T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T07:00:44","slug":"countries-across-europe-heighten-security-levels-amid-terror-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/countries-across-europe-heighten-security-levels-amid-terror-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries across Europe heighten security levels amid terror warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119793\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nSecurity measures have been strengthened in crowded areas over the holiday period across Europe. Security has been stepped up around Christmas celebrations in the Vatican, Germany and Austria over attack concerns. Sightseeing visits were barred at Germany&#8217;s landmark cathedral in Cologne and Christmas Eve worshippers faced security checks to get into midnight Mass on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The moves came amid intelligence warnings indicating a potential attack. However, a top security official urged people not to shy away from holiday celebrations out of fear. Churchgoers attended multiple services at the cathedral in Cologne despite the ban on sightseeing visits, a day after police descended on the cathedral and searched it with sniffer dogs.\u00a0With several dozen officers on duty outside, Auxiliary Bishop Rolf Steinhaeuser greeted those attending what he said was \u201cprobably the most secure church service in all of Germany.\u201d In Austria, police said they also were stepping up security around Vienna&#8217;s churches and Christmas markets, apparently responding to the same intelligence about a potential threat.<\/p>\n<p>They did not give further information, but the DPA news agency reported without citing a source that the threat was from an Islamic extremist group. Police in Cologne said they were taking precautions over Christmas even though the information they had was for an attack on New Year&#8217;s Eve.\u00a0\u201cEven if the reference was to New Year&#8217;s Eve, there are a lot of people in the area around the cathedral, today is Christmas Eve midnight Mass, it is one of the most visited cathedrals, the main train station is nearby,\u201d police spokesman Wolfgang Baldes said while standing in front of the cathedral. \u201cThere are a lot of people, and that&#8217;s why we said that if there was an indication, we would do everything necessary to protect people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Herbert Reul, interior minister for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, appealed to the public not to stay away. \u201cCaution is advised,&#8221; he said, but &#8216;we are not defenceless. Our agencies are using all available information to protect us as well as possible&#8217;. \u201cMy appeal is, go to church, celebrate Christmas. Fear is the currency of terrorists. We should not make it more valuable,\u201d Reul said.\u00a0The European Union\u2019s home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, warned on December 5 that Europe faces a \u201chuge risk of terrorist attacks\u201d over the Christmas holidays due to fallout from the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/12\/26\/countries-across-europe-heighten-security-levels-intelligence-reveals-potential-terrorist-\">Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/countries-across-europe-heighten-security-levels-amid-terror-warnings\/\">Countries across Europe heighten security levels amid terror warnings<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[696,521,5294,606,607,608,4233],"class_list":["post-119793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-europe","tag-security","tag-terror","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-warning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}