"We are at war".
The day after the attack on Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, the Minister of the Interior, on RTL's antenna, designated “the enemy inside and outside” of France, “the Islamist ideology”.
He announces the expulsion of several radicalized foreigners.
Asked about the level of the terrorist threat in France, Gérald Darmanin recalled that three attacks (the attack in front of Charlie's former premises, the assassination of Samuel Paty, and the attack on the Basilica of Nice,
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) had recently hit French soil, the first time since 2015. "There is a very endogenous threat, with people capable of taking a car and sowing terror in the streets of Nice or Paris," said the Minister of the Interior .
Also responsible for this level of threat according to the minister, "the extremely strong calls to hatred by the leaders of foreign countries", and in particular those "scandalous by President Erdogan", criticized Gerald Darmanin.
"I don't blame the Italian government"
The executive announced Thursday the strengthening of the Vigipirate security plan, the number of soldiers patrolling the streets will increase from 3,000 to 7,000. Places of worship will be the subject of special surveillance.
"There will be 4,000 additional soldiers from this weekend to protect places of worship", announced Gérald Darmanin.
The minister then returned at length to the assailant's path, still at the heart of the investigations.
“He has been in our territory for a few hours, days, he has not applied for a resident card to my knowledge, he arrived barely a month ago on European soil.
[…] I don't hold it against the Italian government, since it is someone who has been spotted on Italian soil, ”recalled Gerald Darmanin, stressing that the man was not known to the French services.
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"We must be very hard against radicalized foreigners, that's why we are expelling them," said Gérald Darmanin.
For a month, "14 expulsions" of radicalized foreigners, according to the minister.
18 more evictions are planned in the coming days, reports RTL radio.
1,485 reports on Pharos after the death of Samuel Paty
Gérald Darmanin also stressed that out of "the last thirty terrorists who assassinated, tortured, murdered on our soil, 22 are French".
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"It is not just a problem of foreigners who have just arrived on our soil, radicalized", hammered the minister, taking in support recent arrests near the assassination of Samuel Paty.
1,485 reports were made on the Pharos platform dedicated to illicit content disseminated on the web, in particular because of “ignoble messages, which concern the professor, saying roughly that it is well done what happens to him”, a revealed Gérald Darmanin.
“There have been dozens of arrests following these reports.
We note that the majority of these arrests are young French people, who are between 12 to 14 years old.
This means that the evil is very deep ”, assured Gérald Darmanin.
