The government is showing the muscles.
Jostled by the chopper attack in front of the former Charlie Hebdo offices, the executive first accused the coup.
There is enough: an attack perpetrated in a symbolic place, injuring journalists, in full trial on the events of January 2015. And the main suspect, Ali H., who confessed to the police to have felt "anger" by discovering the reprint of several caricatures.
After the astonishment, Prime Minister Jean Castex went to the Paris police headquarters on Saturday.
In a martial tone, he sent a message "to the enemies of the Republic".
"You will not win," he hammered in front of high-ranking officers, flanked by the prefect of police Didier Lallement.
During this time, Minister Gérald Darmanin received the executive office of the French Council of Muslim Worship on Place Beauvau to discuss the “fight against radicalism claiming to be Islam”.
The Minister of the Interior also stepped up security measures in front of the Bataclan concert hall, certain newspaper offices and near synagogues, in the run-up to the feast of Yom Kippur.
For his part, Emmanuel Macron called on Friday and Saturday the families of the victims to show them his solidarity.
"I have the feeling that France has retreated since the Charlie Hebdo attacks"
While in the polls, questions of terrorism no longer occupied the top of the ranking of the concerns of the French, the return to reality is abrupt.
"These are things that we quickly forget," laments Manuel Valls.
In our columns, the former Prime Minister launches a solemn appeal for the general mobilization of the “republican and secular camp”.
Faced with the threat, has the government let its guard down?
“Not in the least, thunders a weighty advisor.
The terrorist risk is monitored very closely ”.
Some opponents doubt it.
"We have not given ourselves the means to eradicate the causes of this Islamist violence, denounces LR MEP François-Xavier Bellamy on France Info.
What are we waiting for to expel those who preach hatred in our country?
"And to add:" I have the feeling that France has retreated since the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Those who said
we are Charlie
hesitate today to say so.
It's serious ".
Thursday, the day before the attack, Gérald Darmanin and Marlène Schiappa received Zineb El Rhazaoui.
This former Charlie Hebdo journalist is threatened with death and is the subject of hate messages on social networks.
Since then, the writer has been offered enhanced protection ...
Holland comes out of the woods
Hit hard by this scourge during his five-year term, François Hollande was quick to react.
"The answer cannot be a speech and only a speech, it must be a policy in all its dimensions: education, employment, urban policy, security and the fight against radicalization", insisted the former head of state.
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