Association of cities and municipalities calls for new bunkers to be built. “There can no longer be a municipality without sirens.” The federal government must invest at least one billion euros in protecting the population, says an association official in a newspaper interview.
Of the 2,000 public shelters from the Cold War, only 600 remain that can accommodate around 500,000 people, says André Berghegger, new managing director of the association for cities andmunicipalities.