Rambouillet attack: the executive prepares the response
Jean Castex, here in Rambouillet on April 23, 2021. AFP - BERTRAND GUAY
Text by: Julien Chavanne
2 min
A tribute will be paid Monday April 26 to the police officer killed Friday at the Rambouillet police station.
President Emmanuel Macron visited his family this Saturday.
Accused of laxity in the face of the terrorist threat, the government is preparing the response.
A meeting took place this Saturday in Matignon.
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How to strengthen the existing arsenal to avoid new attacks?
For nearly two hours this Saturday, April 24, Jean Castex tried to answer the question.
Around the table, the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and the Armed Forces, representatives of the intelligence services and the national anti-terrorism prosecutor.
The government already has a first idea: to rely on the anti-terrorism law presented Wednesday in the Council of Ministers.
This new text was planned for a long time and it falls rather well for the executive.
► To read also: Rambouillet attack: three people in custody, the blurred profile of the assailant
Macron remains, for the moment, in the background
The law provides in particular to further strengthen the surveillance of social networks, to identify the threat before the act of an individual under the radar.
Exactly the profile of the alleged killer of Rambouillet.
If Matignon ensures that he does not want to react hot, the executive stages his counter-attack.
Emmanuel Macron, for the moment, remains in the background and leaves Jean Castex in the front line.
The head of state planned to speak again in the coming days on the Covid-19.
He had to specify the timetable
for the reopening of public places.
Here he is overtaken by another emergency.
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