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New Orleans ramps up Super Bowl security with over 100,000 Chiefs and Eagles fans expected a month after terror attack

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Security measures have been established in New Orleans before Super Bowl Lix

New Orleans officials are increasing city safety before the Super Bowl, a month after 14 people died in a New Year’s Day terrorist attack.

Thousands of fans will flood in Louisiana next week while the Chiefs and Eagles prepare to face at the Super Bowl Lix.

And according to Fox 8 In New Orleans, extensive security measures such as fences, tens and additional surveillance cameras are already being placed near the Superdome.

The output added that new steel wedges have been placed in ‘Key input points’ by Bourbon Street.

NFL’s security is leading security efforts with the help of local officials.

The Super Bowl Lix, on February 9, will arrive less than two months after New Orleans was shaken by a terrorist attack in Bourbon Street. Shamsud-Din Jabbar rammed their truck in people celebrating New Year’s Eve.

Security measures have been made in New Orleans before Super Bowl Lix

Additional surveillance cameras have been placed near Caesars Suppderdome

Additional surveillance cameras have been placed near Caesars Suppderdome

Fox 8 reported that the city is considering a proposal of an exterior company that would see Bourbon Street become an area only for pedestrians.

However, the Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, Anne Kirkpatrick, said the security planning for the Super Bowl began 18 months ago.

‘We will have multiple tactical equipment, multiple undercover officers. We will extend them in the dome, the exterior of the dome, the French neighborhood and the CDB, ‘Hans Ganthier, the main attached superintendent of the NOPD field operations office.

The New Orleans police spokesman Barry Fletcher has also issued a warning about climbing street posts, as is known that Philadelphia fans, in the French neighborhood.

“With respect to climbing street light posts, that is not only illegal (raid) but is insecure since many of the street posts in the French neighborhood are quite old,” Fletcher said in an email to the Philadelphia inquiring. ‘Climbing them runs the risk of knocking down the light post’.

Fletcher’s warning occurs as after 18 years in Philadelphia after falling from a street post due to the victory of the Eagles NFC championship on Sunday.

A French Quarter hotel is famous for greasing a close post in Bourbon Street, but it is not clear if the rest of the city’s light posts will also be covered in petroleum jelly or other lubricants.

It is estimated that 100,000 visitors pack in the city for the Super Bowl.

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