{"id":544385,"date":"2010-04-27T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=102541"},"modified":"2010-04-27T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:53:50","slug":"new-zealand-stepping-up-security-ahead-of-justin-bieber-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544385","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Stepping Up Security Ahead Of Justin Bieber Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Authorities in New Zealand are pulling out all the stops to ensure that Bieber Frenzy doesn’t result in another Tween Stampede when Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber visits the country later this week. <\/span><\/p>\n

Following a chaotic scene in Australia Monday, which led to the cancellation of the star’s show in Sydney, officials in New Zealand have stepped up security ahead of Bieber’s free concert at the Strathallan School in Papakura on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Police are arranging police escorts for Justin and have taken special care to keep the teen sensation’s arrival secret in a bid to prevent the fan riots that have marked Justin’s stops around the world, including one in Long Island, New York — where more than a dozen girls were trampled after a Bieber CD signing at a local mall was cancelled over security concerns last Oct. 30.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Auckland Airport tells The New Zealand Herald: “We are meeting with police and other airport security tomorrow morning to discuss the issue.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The 16-year-old singer was signed by Usher’s record label Island Def Jam Music Group at the age of 14, after his mother posted videos of him singing at talent shows on YouTube. The singer is promoting his album My World 2.0<\/em>, which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.<\/p>\n

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Authorities in New Zealand are pulling out all the stops to ensure that Bieber Frenzy doesn’t result in another Tween Stampede when Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber visits the country later this week. Following a chaotic scene in Australia Monday, which led to the cancellation of the star’s show in Sydney, officials in New Zealand have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}