Special report: Spotlight on arena security
With terrorists now deliberately targeting venues and events, Richard Smirke talks to Europe's top security experts to hear how the industry is dealing with the threat
Feature By IQ | 5 December 2017
Music arenas have long been prepared for the possibility of a terrorist attack, but it was the tragic events of 22 May – when UK-born Salman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb outside the…
21,000-capacity Manchester Arena following an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people, many of them children, and injuring over 200 more – that confirmed the worst fears about the stark realities now facing venue owners and operators.
“It happened in Manchester, but we all consider ourselves equally at risk,” says Neil Walker,…
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