Gérald Darmanin denounced
"the enslavement of a part of society"
and showed, since his appointment in early July, his determination to fight against delinquency.
Since Friday and the chopper attack in front of the former offices of
Charlie Hebdo
,
the Minister of the Interior must now prove himself in the field of anti-terrorism.
The opposition is already denouncing a lack of vigilance on the part of the State, former Prime Minister Manuel Valls called for a
"jump"
in
Le Parisien
.
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After going to the scene of the attack on Friday, Gérald Darmanin asked the Paris police prefect
"to know the reasons why the threat was clearly underestimated in this street".
"We are still at war against Islamist terrorists"
, he recalled on France 2, stressing that 32 attacks had been foiled for three years, or
"one per month on average"
.
The tenant of Place Beauvau immediately asked to strengthen the protection of symbolic places, starting with the Hyper Cacher and the Bataclan, already struck in 2015, and Jewish places of worship.
Sunday morning, Gerald Darmanin reassured the Jewish community by going to the Boulogne-Billancourt synagogue.
Mobile force units deployed during the Yom Kippur holidays have doubled from last year.
The threat is diffuse, we can't put a static guard in front of every location
Beauvau Square
"The question is whether or not we could have done better on the rue Nicolas-Appert"
, indicates his entourage, who specifies that no threat had been raised and that the production agency present in the premises
" never asked for protection ”
.
"The threat is diffuse, we cannot put a static guard in front of each place,"
says place Beauvau.
Terrorists attack anywhere, anytime. ”
Former Secretary of State Laurent Nuñez, who heads the Elysée's anti-terrorism "task force", confirmed to AFP that he
"
had
no knowledge in this regard of such a threat"
concerning the former
Charlie Hebdo
premises
.
