The Christmas market season has opened in Germany

The Christmas market season has opened in Germany, but security requirements have not allowed everyone to start work. Footage of Christmas markets on November 24 is published by Izvestia.

"The Christmas market season is officially opening all over Germany today, but not all of them were able to really get to work this year," correspondent Margarita Kostiv said.

According to the journalist, the reason for the absence of some sellers at the fair was a new security concept created to prevent terrorist attacks, which requires serious financial investments from the organizers.

"The Christmas markets in Dortmund, Rostock and Overat did not open, precisely because they could not afford the new security concept," Kostiv said.

Despite the restrictions, most of the fairs opened according to schedule. At the same time, prices for fairground products have increased significantly.

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In June, police in Cologne detained a 14-year-old schoolboy, Emirkhan, after he joined the Islamic State (IS, a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) and planned to carry out a terrorist attack on one of the Christmas fairs in December on his behalf. The Cologne prosecutor's office said that the teenager posted videos with symbols of a terrorist organization on his TikTok channel. There were Islamist materials in other social networks of the teenager, and in one of the publications he called himself a "martyr." It was clarified that the student is suspected of promoting unconstitutional associations and membership in a banned organization.

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