Warsaw to install anti-terrorist barriers along main thoroughfare

Warsaw City Council decided on Thursday to build expandable barriers along the city's main thoroughfare to prevent potential terrorist attacks with the use of vehicles. The barriers will be installed in 2018-20 and will cost PLN 7.3 mln (EUR 1.7 mln). Bartosz Milczarczyk, spokesman for Warsaw City Hall, told PAP that the city decided to protect the two streets that attract most pedestrian traffic, Krakowskie Przedmie¶cie and Nowy ¦wiat, in response to a spate of attacks that have taken place in recent years in Europe in which terrorists used vehicles to plough through pedestrians. "We have no signals that Warsaw could be threatened by such an attack, but this could act as a protective measure against, for example, frustrated people," the spokesman said.