French
Prime Minister Manuel Valls confirmed on Tuesday the government’s
plan to extend a nationwide state of emergency which has been in
place since last November’s coordinated terrorist attacks shook
Paris.
Valls
said that the government will ask the country’s parliament to
further extend the state of emergency enacted after the November
Paris attacks carried out by terrorists which killed at least 130
people including the shooting of concertgoers at the Bataclan
Theatre.
“France
has to be clear about the threat, and that’s why we’re proposing
to Parliament to extend the state of emergency,” Valls said,
noting that the risk for terrorist attacks seems to have decreased.
The
prime minister has continually cited the country’s presidential
elections starting in May and France’s support of U.S.-backed
forces fighting the Islamic State Group in Iraq and Syria as
justification for the extension.
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