(Radio France) French Prime Minister Jean Castex has on Wednesday defended a new bill aimed at combating terrorism, which he believes necessary to adapt to new threats that are harder to detect.
Speaking this Wednesday following a cabinet meeting, Castex said the new legislation “reconciles two requirements: giving our services the means to be more efficient while also fully respecting our fundamental principles,” working within a strict framework of procedures which will govern implementation of the measures.
Coming less than a week after a fatal attack on a police official in the town of Rambouillet, the prime minister insisted that “the Republic intends to continue to give itself all the means to combat Islamist terrorism.”
