The number of French police personnel patrolling the coastal area will double, in accordance with the agreement reached on Saturday. Those officers will be using drones and radars to make their work more effective, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel announced. The deal, which comes into effect on December 1, will …
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Minister Shireen Mazari did not hold back with her criticisms of Macron’s insistence that Muslim leaders in France agree to a “charter of republican values,” among other policies aimed at discouraging radicalism. “Macron is doing to Muslims what the Nazis did to the Jews – Muslim children will get ID …
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The proposed legislation, currently being debated by the French parliament, seeks to criminalize photographing or filming the police with intent to cause harm. It would also reportedly give more autonomy to local police, arm more officers nationwide and expand the use of surveillance drones in high-crime areas. Video shared online …
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“We are in a war against an enemy that is both inside and outside,” Darmanin told RTL radio on Friday. He said that France must brace for further tragedy as it fights against “Islamist ideology.” “We need to understand that there have been and there will be other events such …
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Following the beheading of schoolteacher, Samuel Paty, by a radicalized Chechen refugee earlier this month, Macron vowed to defended French values and take a firm stand against Islamist extremism, announcing the closure of several mosques on accusations of promoting fringe ideology. “The president had many, many people behind him when …
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The assailant has been identified as Brahim A., a 21-year-old male of Tunisian descent, Nice-Matin, a regional daily, reported. The claim has been repeated by at least one French lawmaker. The suspect is now in police custody after being injured and arrested at the site. At least one of his …
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Speaking on Tuesday, Darmanin told France-Inter Radio that security operations will be ramped up at religious sites as the country faces an increased terrorist threat ahead of All Saints’ Day on November 1, in the wake of the recent brutal killing of a history teacher in an apparent Islamist attack. …
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan doubled down on his accusations against France on Monday, officially calling for a boycott of French goods. “Just like they say, ‘Don’t buy good with Turkish brands’ in France, I am calling to all my citizens from here to never help French brands or buy them,” Erdogan …
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Abdullakh Anzorov, the 18-year-old Chechen refugee who gruesomely murdered Paty in his classroom in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine last week, had exchanged WhatsApp messages with the father of one of Paty’s pupils, who had urged fellow Muslims to file complaints against the teacher online, AFP reported on Tuesday, citing police sources. The news …
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The original complaint was reportedly lodged by the father of a 13-year-old girl who studied at the school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, where Paty taught history and geography. He said in a Facebook video that the teacher had, at some time earlier this month, shown the class a caricature of a “naked …
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