France: after Saturday night's attack, the executive in embarrassment
The investigation continues after the stabbing attack near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday night in Paris. The alleged perpetrator of the attack that left one dead and two injured has been arrested. He is a 26-year-old French-Iranian man who has been registered for Islamist radicalisation and is subject to a care order involving close psychiatric monitoring. Were there any shortcomings and at what level? The issue is clearly dividing the executive.
Paris, December 3, 2023: Gerald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, giving the first information after the attack on three people near the Eiffel Tower, in Paris. AFP - ARNAUD RICHARD
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Speaking to RTL on Monday morning, the government spokesman said cautiously that all follow-up procedures had been followed.
Olivier Véran, a doctor by profession, does not question the medical follow-up of the alleged perpetrator of the attack. "The preliminary evidence, once again, shows that the medical, administrative and criminal pathways for this individual were in line with what was possible with the state of the law. And all the decisions, whether judicial or medical, that is to say, the four years in prison, the obligation to monitor for three years, the long-term supervision, these obligations have been fulfilled. »
The government spokesperson raised the issue of an extension of the care order in the event of radicalisation. A few minutes later, on BFMTV, the Minister of the Interior was more offensive.
A 'failure' for Darmanin
Gérald Darmanin praised the work of the police, but clearly pointed the finger at the doctors in charge of his follow-up. "There was obviously a failure, not in the follow-up of the intelligence services, but there was obviously a psychiatric failure because the doctors, on several occasions, considered that he was better, that he was more normal and that he could live, dare I say it, freely."
The National Rally prefers to see this as a political failure. His boss, Jordan Bardella, denounced the "inefficiency" of the interior minister and his moral responsibility, believing that the attack was not the consequence of a problem related to the psychiatric follow-up of the assailant.
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Yesterday Sunday, at the end of the day, at the request of the President of the Republic, Elisabeth Borne held a security meeting to which the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau, the government spokesman Olivier Véran and the Minister of the Interior were summoned. With just a few months to go before the Olympics, this aggression is putting the government under pressure.
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