Christmas Markets Prepare To Open With Heightened Security Measures

HALLE, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 26: New security systems involving barriers and road level nail traps have been placed at the road entrances to the Christmas Market to restrict vehicle access with public trams being the only exception on November 26, 2025 in Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Many German Christmas markets are having to increase their security measures following the Magdeburg Christmas market attack last year. On December 20, 2024 Taleb al-Abdulmohsen drove a car into the crowded open-air market, killing six people and injuring over 300. The city of Halle has experienced a terror attack back in October 2019 during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur when a Synagogue and Turkish restaurant were attacked by a far right gun man resulting in 2 fatalities. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)