The killing at the police headquarters is indicative of a "state dysfunction" but not a "state scandal" as stated by the opposition, said Monday the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner. Rejecting once again the calls for his resignation, Christophe Castaner also assured France Inter that he was not trying to "clear customs" but felt he did not make "error or false arbitration" in this case. "In the case of the author of the attack, there was no trace, no report," he repeated.
The Interior Minister also lamented Monday that the radicalization of Mickael Harpon, the assailant of the police headquarters in Paris, did not give rise to alerts "at the right level, at the right time." He recalled that the killer had justified the attacks of Charlie Hebdo in 2015 within his service without being the subject of a "formal report". He wished that each alert is now subject to "automatic reporting".