German city protects its Christmas market from vehicular jihad massacres with concrete Christmas trees as barriers

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/11/german-city-protects-its-christmas-market-from-vehicular-jihad-massacres-with-concrete-christmas-trees-as-barriers

Nov 29, 2018 4:35 pm By Robert Spencer 35 Comments

Celebrate diversity! Diversity is our strength! Aren’t these trees beautiful! How they will add to the festive spirit in Bautzen! But beware: some may deem them “Islamophobic,” since they’re obviously in place because there are Muslims in and around Bautzen, and some of them may be jihadis. The Greens are already enraged over this “fear mongering.” Jihad threat? Pah! Anis Amri? Who’s that?

“German city uses one tonne heavy concrete Christmas trees to counter terror attacks,” Voice of Europe, November 29, 2018:

As Voice of Europe reported earlier, Germany’s Christmas markets are rapidly changing and will probably never be the same again.
This year the Christmas market in Bautzen will have its anti-terror upgrade. One tonne heavy concrete Christmas trees will be installed as barriers to prevent vehicular attacks.
“The safety of our visitors is very important to us as organisers and we cannot ignore the latent danger situation,” explains mayor Alexander Ahrens.
“And we think the protection tree solution is more elegant than setting up huge concrete blocks,” he adds. But the twelve concrete near the market are controversial for the Greens, a far-left German party.
“For me, this is completely superfluous actionism.” “This is fear mongering for Bautzen as no security warnings of the authorities are known of,” says councillor Claus Gruhl (59) of the Greens….