On Friday,French lawmakers started debating constitutional changes that would see French nationals convicted of terror offences stripped of their citizenship and make it easier to put controversial emergency powers in Place.
Addressing the National Assembly on Friday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the emergency powers had enabled police to “destabilize” jihadist networks and thwart a terrorist plot – a reference to the December arrest of a 27-year-old Chechen featured in a video threatening to attack French police.
Valls claimed the state of emergency was an “efficient and indispensable” tool to tackle the worsening terrorist threat.
He said more than “2,000 French residents are implicated in [jihadist]networks linked to Syria and Iraq”, adding that “the fight against radicalization will be the task of a generation”.
FRANCE 24
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