A holiday under close surveillance. Gérald Darmanin asked this Saturday for a reinforcement of the protection by the police of places of worship and offices on the occasion of the feast of the Assumption, on August 15.
In a telegram addressed to the heads of the police and the gendarmerie, of which AFP has read, the Minister of the Interior explains that “the persistence of a high level of the terrorist threat requires the maintenance of strong vigilance vis-à-vis places of a religious nature.
In view of the holidays of August 15, he asks them to give “instruction to the police to be systematically in front of places of worship during office hours”.