Italian security forces on Monday reinforced security measures around the Vatican since the attacks in Paris.
AFP
In the Pius XII plaza, Bernini's colonnade and the Via della Conciliazione, the broad avenue leading to St. Peter, had several trucks and jeeps of police and Italian police, said a journalist from AFP in place.
Blue police cars and black of the police remained stationed, while agents in uniform controlled all the entrances to the Plaza de San Pedro.
Security around the Vatican is provided by the Italian state and the police guarding the area permanently.
Inside the Vatican, which receives daily thousands of tourists from around the world they have been strengthened security measures.
"Clearly more attention was asked" to internal forces -gendarmerÃa and Swiss Verein guard told AFP Ciro Benedettini, deputy spokesman of the Holy See.
In an interview with the French newspaper La Croix, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, acknowledged that "the Vatican can be white and b because of its religious significance," he said.
"We can raise the level of security measures around the Vatican. But let's not paralyzed by fear. We will not modify the papal agenda, "said the number two Vatican.
As for the Jubilee, or Holy Year dedicated to mercy, which opens on December 8 and will attract millions of Catholics to Rome and the Vatican, Cardinal Parolin said "it is the right time to launch a campaign to mercy for "forgiveness.
"The Merciful is also the name of God for Muslims, which may be associated with the Holy Year, as the Pope wishes" he said.
Francisco met on Monday morning with the heads of all the departments (departments) of the Roman Curia to discuss various issues, including the wave of migration that affects Europe and relations with the Muslim world.