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After the attack in Moscow claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State, Gabriel Attal announced that “exceptional means” would be deployed “everywhere on the territory”.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal goes early Monday afternoon to Saint-Lazare station in Paris to greet the police, including the soldiers of the Sentinelle force, after the Vigipirate security plan was raised to its level. the highest, announced Matignon.
Gabriel Attal announced Monday that “exceptional means” would be deployed “everywhere in the territory”with “4000 additional soldiers” placed “on alert”after the attack in Moscow claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State.
“The Islamist terrorist threat is real, it is strong” And “she never faltered”, said the Prime Minister during a visit to Saint-Lazare station in Paris, after the Vigipirate system was raised to its maximum level. He said two planned attacks had been “foiled” in France since the start of the year.
45 attack plans foiled since 2017
According to the Ministry of the Interior to AFP, the first foiled attack dates back to January 10, with the arrest of a person for a project targeting “Jewish targets” or a “LGBT nightclub”. The second, on March 5, concerned a 62-year-old man for a planned attack against Christian religious buildings, the same source said.
“We act upstream, we act on all fronts. Our fight against terrorism cannot be fought with words. It is very concrete and our hand will never tremble in the face of terrorism, never in the face of Islamism”added Gabriel Attal, affirming that 45 planned attacks had been foiled since 2017, and that 760 radicalized foreigners had been “returned to the border” since that date.
A meeting organized by the General Secretariat of Defense and National Security, placed under its authority, was held at noon to decide on the measures to be taken, as after each change of posture of the Vigipirate plan.
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Up to 10,000 soldiers engaged
When France had moved to this same alert level “emergency attack” after the murder of teacher Dominique Bernard in Arras by a radicalized former student, up to 7,000 soldiers from the Sentinel force were deployed in the territory. The Vigipirate plan was then downgraded to level 2 (“reinforced security – risk of attack”) in January before being raised again on Sunday evening.
Operation Sentinel was launched in January 2015, after the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Up to 10,000 soldiers (including 3,000 in reserve) can be deployed on national territory, according to the Ministry of the Armed Forces. The volume of soldiers deployed is not fixed and evolves according to needs.
The General Directorate of Internal Security will meet on Thursday morning “all intelligence actors” For “draw all the consequences of the Moscow attack”announced Gérald Darmanin on Monday.