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Added on the 19/07/2019 18:26:16 - Copyright : France 24 EN
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
Marlène Schiappa, Deputy Minister for Citizenship meets French bosses from major social networks and platforms (Facebook Twitter, Google, Tiktok and Snapchat) as part of the "fight against cyber-Islamism", four days after the savage murder of a professor in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. IMAGES
People arrive at the Savigny-sur-Orge mosque, during the funeral of Shemseddine, a 15-year-old French teenager beaten to death after school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris. Mats and sheets are held up as the hearse arrives in strict privacy at the request of the family. IMAGES
Flowers and candles are laid outside the secondary school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris. where 15-year-old French schoolboy Shemseddine was beaten up to death on Friday over a dispute involving the sister of two of his attackers. Four young people have been charged with murder over the killing that has heightened concern about violence in French schools. IMAGES
Images from the "Les Sablons" school where a 15-year-old teenager was beaten up by several people on Thursday afternoon as he left his secondary school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris, and has since been hospitalised with a life-threatening condition. IMAGES
Three days after the discovery of the remains of a toddler in France who had been missing since July, police experts are resuming their search around the hamlet of Haut-Vernet in southern France to recover the child's other remains and shed light on the circumstances of his death. IMAGES