Officials were told in 2019 that the French Quarter’s Bourbon Street was vulnerable to car-ramming. Days on from those fears being realised, it has reopened
New Orleans officials were warned five years ago that the city’s famed Bourbon Street, a tourist hotspot that attracts thousands of people each day, was vulnerable to a “vehicular ramming” attack.
As revellers and residents returned to the strip, which reopened only 36 hours after Shamsud-Din Jabbar used a vehicle to kill 14 people and injure more than 30 others in the early hours of New Year’s Day, local officials pledged to strengthen security measures throughout the historic French Quarter.
