IT WILL be a sobering tour. Emmanuel Macron is to place flowers at the Stade de France, the Bataclan theatre and elsewhere in Paris on November 13th, marking the places where gunmen killed 130 people and injured over 400. Two years and several murderous assaults later, France’s president says such Islamist extremists remain the greatest threat to internal security. He argues, too, that a country ill-prepared in 2015 to fight “jihadist terrorism” is improving its capacity.
He is probably right on both counts. Mr Macron’s government plans to recruit an extra 10,000 police by 2022. After years of neglect, it will promote community policing—sensible, because day-to-day encounters, for example with immigrant groups in poor districts, should provide helpful intelligence. As important, in June it created a National Centre for Counter-Terrorism in the Elysée Palace, led by a well-respected ex-chief of counter-espionage, Pierre de Bousquet de Florian.
That new body co-ordinates all intelligence work and passes advice...Continue reading
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