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full screen The Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, is closed on Saturday, after five people were killed in a car attack on Friday. Photo: Michael Probst/AP/TT
Norwegian police have been ordered to increase their presence in “relevant and threatened areas and objects” due to the car attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday.
The measure is intended as a preventive measure, writes Norwegian police chief Bjørn Eirik Vandvik in an email to the news agency NTB.
Among other things, the police had a patrol stationed at a Christmas market in Bergen.
Similar measures are being introduced in Austria, where the police have an increased presence at Christmas markets in particular.