After a series of terrorist attacks that have devastated France in recent weeks, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced, Monday, November 2, on BFMTV that he would visit Tunisia and Algeria on "weekend" to address the issue of the fight against terrorism and the removal of "radicalized" foreigners. 

"I'm leaving at the end of the week," said the minister, questioned after the attack on the Basilica in Nice on Thursday which left three people dead and whose alleged perpetrator is a 21-year-old Tunisian, who arrived shortly before in France. 

This is the third Islamist-inspired attack on French territory since the republication of the Muhammad cartoons by Charlie Hebdo in early September.

Two weeks earlier, Samuel Paty, who was professor of history and geography in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the Yvelines, was beheaded by a Russian refugee of Chechen origin.

The objective of this trip by the minister is "to discuss with my counterparts from the Ministry of the Interior and with the intelligence services, to exchange views in order to have more information," added Gérald Darmanin. 

"The President of the Republic had his counterparts to be able to agree on the dismissal of a certain number of people who have the nationality of these countries and who are mistaken for radicalization in our country", he said. added.

The Élysée announced on Sunday evening that President Macron had asked Gérald Darmanin to go to Tunisia.

Sixteen expulsions in the past month

"We have expelled sixteen people mistaken for radicalization", for a month, he said.

"This does not mean (...) condemned. We consider that they are radicalized and that they are foreign to our country," continued Gérald Darmanin. 

"I asked the prefects to put all foreigners in an irregular situation confused with radicalization in the CRAs", the administrative detention centers, added the minister.

Today, they are "a hundred", he said, adding that discussions were underway with the authorities of their countries with a view to their removal.

Gérald Darmanin has also announced that he would go "in the next few days" to Russia to discuss these questions.

For three years, 458 radicalized individuals have, according to him, been expelled.

With AFP and Reuters 

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