(Reuters) The minister in charge of France’s security at the time of the 2015 attacks in Paris in which Islamist gunmen killed 130 people told a court on Wednesday that he was haunted by the question of whether authorities could have done more to prevent it.
Former Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve defended the action of authorities, saying they had done everything they could with the information available, with his only criticism directed at the lack of cross-Europe cooperation.
But asked by the court if he had any regrets, he said: “Not a day has passed since the attacks occurred that I didn’t wonder if I could have done something that I didn’t do. This question haunts me constantly.”
“I will continue to ask myself that until my last breath.”
