While the news is turned towards the war in Ukraine and the presidential election, the Minister of the Interior calls for vigilance regarding the terrorist threat.
This Monday, Gérald Darmanin asked the prefects, the police and the gendarmerie to maintain "strong vigilance on a general level but also more specifically vis-à-vis places of a religious nature".
Indeed, this period is marked by religious holidays: Christian holidays (Palm Sunday and Easter), the Jewish holiday of Passover and the month of Ramadan.
In a message addressed to the prefects as well as to the directors general of the police and the gendarmerie, the Minister of the Interior underlines that “the terrorist threat is still high”.
Special attention to Orthodox communities
He also draws their attention "to the Orthodox communities, resident in France or from populations displaced due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict".
According to him, they could “on the occasion of the Easter celebrations mobilize and express their attachment to the patriarchate of Moscow or the patriarchate of kyiv established in 1992 after the independence of Ukraine”.
“You will take care, he writes, to identify very precisely the Orthodox places of worship in your department which could be the subject of increased attendance by the faithful or gatherings of opponents”.
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