(Local) French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a long-awaited speech on Tuesday afternoon to reveal the government’s new strategy to fight Islamist extremism.
“We need to accept that there is what I would call a separatism in our Republic today,” the president said in January.
The government’s new plan to tackle what it has long dubbed communitarianism — or the separation of communities and lack of integration — was first announced after a deadly attack on a police station in Paris in October 2019.
The attacker — who killed [four] police employees and severely wounded two others before being shot dead — was a radicalised Islamist who had worked at the station as a computer expert for over 15 years.
