A firm statement in a tense security context.
The police, gendarmerie and French intelligence “will be ready” to ensure security at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Monday, traveling to Roubaix, after the Vigipirate plan was upgraded to its maximum level.
“France, because it carries universal values, because it is for secularism (…) is particularly threatened, particularly during these extraordinary events that will be the Olympic Games,” underlined the minister, three days after the Moscow attack claimed by Islamic State.
“An extremely effective intelligence system”
“The French police, the gendarmes, the prefects, the intelligence, will be ready” for the Olympics, he added, stressing that attempted attacks were regularly foiled and noting that “the Islamist threat” could “affect everything”. the world, at all times, not just France.”
“We have an extremely effective intelligence system.
We prevent attacks from taking place almost every month,” he insisted.
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“The Olympics are a target”
The minister announced a meeting Thursday morning at the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) with “all intelligence actors” to “draw all the conclusions from the Moscow attack”.
At the request of Gabriel Attal, the Secretary General of Defense and National Security, under his authority, also convened a meeting on Monday morning bringing together all the security services called upon to adapt their posture following the recovery. of the alert.
The government could immediately specify the security system.