Sochi: maximum Security to a month of winter Olympic Games

The 31 days of the opening of the winter Olympic Games, security, in Russia, is tighter than ever.

Moscow has stepped up the device, especially after the two bombings that made 34 killed in Volgograd, the 29 and 30 December.

Access to the Olympic village is now harder and was applied a new plane of movement. Access by car to Sochi, the city of 350 000 inhabitants, is only allowed to those vehicles which have a special permit.

The measures may seem excessive, but the population understands.

"After what happened in Volgograd," says one inhabitant. A young reiterates: "maybe it's too, in some places, but you can't have Olympics without security."

Were mobilized 42,000 police officers and 10,000 agents of the Interior Ministry. It added the Navy ships, ready to eliminate any threat coming from the Black Sea, and the anti-aircraft missile systems, which are watching the skies.

For tourists, present in Sochi, security is something positive: "I think it is very good to feel safe where we are and this is, in fact, the feeling that we have here, in Sochi. We feel good, we feel safe. "

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