Plenty of security here on the Costa Brava. Coastguard/Police boats in the Bay of Roses whilst I was windsurfing yesterday and a police car driving along the beachside jogging track whilst out running this morning.
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France has taken a very responsible approach to these latest type of attacks.
Bordeaux has the army on patrol and the quay has dozens of concrete blocks at certain places to prevent vehicular access. Even my local town has blocked roads on market day with vans and/or barriers. Even my village blocked roads for our fete weekend.
When I first lived in France I cursed the abundant street furniture,now I see it as anti terrorist furniture.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the future town planners in didn't incorperate anti terror plans into their designs.
Anti terror measures have been incorporated into plans for sometime now, due to them being subtle we have not really noticed them. But they are there.
My concern is that due to severe cutbacks, can we actually put the kind of security in place we see in France and Spain. Talking to a current serving Police Officer friend of mine the answer is no. If some deranged lowlife carried out a similar outrage in Torquay, the four or five unarmed Police Officers on duty would be, quite frankly, useless.
I was in Bordeaux just before last Xmas, I could not begin to tell you how many armed joint Police/Army patrols we saw, at a guess I would say there were 50-60 security personnel patrolling the old town. It was very reassuring. We just do not have that here in Britain.
I bet their "Rules of engagement" are different to ours too!
Quote: Originally posted by Keyboard warrior on 20/8/2017
France has taken a very responsible approach to these latest type of attacks.
Bordeaux has the army on patrol and the quay has dozens of concrete blocks at certain places to prevent vehicular access. Even my local town has blocked roads on market day with vans and/or barriers. Even my village blocked roads for our fete weekend.
When I first lived in France I cursed the abundant street furniture,now I see it as anti terrorist furniture.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the future town planners in didn't incorperate anti terror plans into their designs.
Our 'local' beaches, down in the Aude, have new bollards making long areas of the seafront inaccessible to vehicles, there are temporary chicanes on those roads which are accessible, making any sort of speed impossile, and on the beachfront there are armed patrols. Our village, too, had areas barricaded off during the Bank Holiday weekend, when there was a Fete, a Boules Tournament, and drinks and nibbles open to all in the village square - and two policemen turned up, whether by coincidence, or invitation.......! France has certainly upped the game recently.
One of the attackers in the Barcelona attack is thought to have fled to France, so keep your eyes and ears open - and look out for a Spanish registered Renault Kangoo van.
We had a strange event, back in July, on this smallish out of the way campsite, when there was a lot of kerfuffle, with campsite staff rushing about the site, down towards the riverside, and in the farmland to one side, and about an hour later when all had gone quiet, a person in a burka strolled up from the riverside, and disappeared out of the campsite gates......... I'm sure I mentioned it on here at the time and we never did find out exactly what had been going on.
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Topic: Terror attacks in Spain
