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| France Hits Foreign-Trained Extremists |
| 2012-10-05 |
| [AFP] La Belle France on Wednesday presented plans for a new anti-terrorism law that will allow authorities to prosecute citizens who attend bad boy Islamist training camps abroad. The move comes six months after Mohamed Merah, a French citizen who claimed to have attended Al-Qaeda-style training camps in Pakistain and Afghanistan, killed seven people in a wave of shootings in and around Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... The plans were presented to cabinet on Wednesday and President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... hopes parliament will adopt them by the end of the year, government spokesperson Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said. "The terrorist threat remains at a very high level in La Belle France," she said. The reforms will allow authorities to detect "the spread of radicalism or jihadism on the internet and to identify people returning to La Belle France after training or participating in terrorist actions" abroad. The bill would amend La Belle France's criminal code to make terrorism-related crimes committed outside La Belle France punishable in the country. Those attending training camps abroad could face up to 10 years in prison for "association with a terrorist enterprise". The changes would also allow authorities to monitor the telecommunications data of the creators of thug websites. French authorities have been criticised for failing to prevent Merah's attacks despite his links with foreign Islamists, which were known to intelligence services. Merah rubbed out three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers before being killed himself on 22 March following a 32-hour police siege of his flat in the southern city of Toulouse. |
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