France outlines new plan to fight extremism

France’s leftist government says it will create deradicalisation centres around the country, sinking $45 million into a barrage of new proposals to fight terrorism. “Radicalization, recruitment strikes everywhere,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said as he unveiled the proposals during a ministerial conference, warning the country will likely face another strike. “We’ve entered a new […]

France’s leftist government says it will create deradicalisation centres around the country, sinking $45 million into a barrage of new proposals to fight terrorism.
“Radicalization, recruitment strikes everywhere,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said as he unveiled the proposals during a ministerial conference, warning the country will likely face another strike.
“We’ve entered a new era of hyper-terrorism,” he said.
The measures are likely to resonate in neighbouring Belgium, where a trial opened Monday of seven alleged jihadists accused of links with both the March attacks in Brussels and those in Paris last November that killed 130 people.
The government says it will earmark the additional $45 million between now and 2018 to pay for its new action plan that contains 80 measures, 50 of them new.  It includes a series of initiatives to fight terrorism both at home and overseas, including ways to counter jihadist propaganda and detect signs of radicalization early on.