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MIAMI †Four days after a German tourist who inadvertently drove his car in a downtown area of Miami was assaulted, robbed and killed, the resulting outcry turned murder into an international incident.
In Bonn, the German government issued a list of precautionary measures for citizens planning to visit Florida, the first time in memory such a travel advisory has been issued for a destination U S.
We are very concerned about the situation there, but we do not want to overreact, said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry is not like we want to say that Florida is dismal or more brutal than elsewhere it is clearly no worse than New York.
However, officials in Florida are scrambling to control the damage of advertising around the world about the attack could lead to 30 billion tourism industry of the state, especially after the recent waves of violence against the French Canadian visitors to the Miami area and a rash of stone-throwers incidents last November that had the troops of the national Guard patrolling a highway near Jacksonville.
Barbara Jensen Meller, a physiotherapist aged 39 in Berlin, arrived in Miami on Friday with her two young children and mother After picking up a red Ford Taurus from Alamo Rent-A-Car, she was heading to the International Airport Miami a Miami Beach hotel where she seems lost and pulled off Interstate 95, just north of downtown.
In a preferred technique for smash and grab thieves, his car was pressing, and when Jensen came out to inspect the damage, at least two men attacked him and grabbed her purse as they fled, they ran Jensen on with their car, crushing its head horrified mother and children watched.
It was the third and sixth German foreign visitor to be killed since December in Florida.
GOV Lawton Chiles asked US Atty Gen Janet Reno, former Attorney General in Miami, if new federal laws against carjacking could also be used to convict criminals that prey on tourists He also said he would take a special session of the legislature apply the word telltale lease and the Y and Z letters on plates hire car license are prohibited for thieves, special plates are known as Rob me tags, Miami police say.
Municipal police departments, provincial and federal were to meet for the second time today on a contingency plan for the fight against crime Lee Street Condon, an agent with the Department for enforcement of Florida, says you can t look at this family and do not feel the emotion and grief it adds to the desire to do something quickly.
In Dade County, tourism officials said they would speed up security measures, including the installation of directional signs, many of which were first proposed it 18 months ago when the smash and flights grabbing tourists have reached epidemic proportions here myopic After the outbreak, the police set up a special working group to protect visitors while tourism officials printed in Hospitality Brochures warning that advise keeping the windows and doors are locked.
But Jensen has not received the brochure with his car keys Alamo offered a reward of up to 100,000 for information leading to the arrest of police killers Jensen have made no arrests.
Outrage over the murder increased every day, both in the US and abroad in Germany, the tabloid newspaper Bild reported the story Monday under the title Miami Death Trap Under the Palm Trees their story were two gangsters looked at the dying woman kicking her in the head with his boots another pummeled his body with his fists.
Jensen's husband, Christian, who arrived on the weekend, appeared Tuesday on NBC's Today and said he supported efforts to protect visitors to Miami is probably a good idea, he said, but it is bad for us to react so late.
The day after the murder of Jensen, the German consul in Miami, Klaus Sommer, said he was so concerned about the safety of his countrymen he could encourage them to avoid the city altogether the German government does not go as away, but the Foreign Ministry has published a list of the most dangerous region of Miami, including Miami Beach, Liberty City, Overtown and northwest of Miami Jensen was killed in the Liberty City area.
Foreign visitors are an important part of tourism in Florida, the largest state industry, and the Germans are a growing segment of the market during the first 11 months of 1992, more than 403,000 Germans visited Florida, according to the state department of Commerce, and 75 came to Greater Miami in all, German visitors to Florida increased 20 last year compared to 1991.
The average German tourist in the United States spend 1150 and remains more than 14 days, according to a national survey.
It was a heinous crime, and we have damage, said Merritt Stierheim, president of the greater Miami Convention and Visitors.
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