The criticism of the responsible minister has been merciless in recent days. This was after the deed last week when a 45-year-old IT expert, who was employed at the Paris police headquarters, stabbed three police officers and a civilian employee before he was shot dead.

"It is obvious that mistakes have been made because four people were killed, three men and one woman," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner told French television.

Would look at extremists

The act, which was initially investigated as a murder, is now being investigated as a terrorist act. According to the prosecutor, the murderer, who converted to Islam, has become radicalized after contacts with violent Islamists - just the groups he was commissioned to survey.

According to the AP, data now appear that the man already defended the bloody attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2015 before colleagues, when Islamist terrorists entered the editorial of the satirical newspaper and killed twelve people. Interior Minister Castaner now admits that this information was never reported further and that the man could continue to work with security-classified duties. This neglect is now being investigated in parallel with the legal process.

Over the weekend, the criticism against those responsible has grown in strength and the opposition demands that Castaner resign. Requirements rejected by the Minister so far. On Monday, he contended that, since 2003, French police have succeeded in preventing 59 terrorist attacks. He also told us that the terror threat level in the country remains at "high to very high", even after last week's deed.