Gérald Darmanin asked those responsible for the security of the territory for "
a high level of vigilance
", particularly around places classified as sensitive, during the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 which begins Wednesday, AFP learned Tuesday September 7 from his entourage.
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In this telegram sent Monday to the police prefects of Paris and Bouches-du-Rhône, as well as to the prefects of the metropolitan and overseas defense zones, the Minister of the Interior requires their "
collective vigilance (. ..) total both with regard to the endogenous and exogenous (terrorist) threat
”. He recalls that, last year, the trial of the January 2015 attacks had been the occasion of a "
succession of attacks on the national territory
" (against the former premises of
Charlie Hebdo,
assassination of Samuel Paty mid- October) following the republication by the satirical weekly of cartoons of Muhammad.
The minister consequently ordered his executives to maintain "
a high level of vigilance, especially around places of worship, places of learning, large gatherings in a context of return to normalcy and former places of worship. attacks
”.
“
You will therefore mobilize the internal security forces for a visible and dissuasive presence
,” adds Gérald Darmanin.
The trial of the jihadist attacks of November 13, the deadliest committed on French territory, opens Wednesday for nine months before the special assize court in Paris.
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Twenty defendants are being prosecuted there, including Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the commandos which left 130 dead and several hundred wounded around the Stade de France, on the terraces of Parisian bistros and in the concert hall of the Bataclan.