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French city opens famed Christmas market year after attack

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On 11 December 2018, a radical Islamist gunman went on the rampage at the market, killing 5 people.

The celebrated Christmas market in France's eastern city of Strasbourg opened for another festive season Friday, with shopkeepers and visitors vowing not to be cowed by an attack last year by a radical Islamist gunman that killed five people.

"We have no specific elements of concern -- terrorist or otherwise -- concerning the Christmas market in Strasbourg", Interior Minister Christophe Castaner told the Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace newspaper. "My family has done the Christmas market since 1906. That would show that we are scared and is out of the question," she said.

The Strasbourg market, which will stay open until December 30, has a budget of up to five million euros but brings in 250 million euros in income for the city.

 

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