After the latest attacks in Germany and the United States, the French Minister of the Interior calls on prefects and law enforcement to be “maximum vigilant”.
As France commemorates this Tuesday the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks against Charlie Hebdo and against the Jewish store Hypercacher in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, recalled that the terrorist threat remained very present and that “France could be hit again.”
In an interview with the newspaper The Parisian, the minister notably targeted “political Islam” Who “threatens our institutions and national cohesion”. And to expressly quote “the Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhood” against which the police and intelligence forces will intensify their investigations. It will be even “one of the main priorities for the coming months”, underlined Bruno Retailleau because “the battle against Islamic totalitarianism is far from won.”
The minister has also sent instructions to this effect to the prefects as well as to the bosses of the police and the gendarmerie. According to Le Figarothe minister asks them to keep “maximum vigilance and strengthening security measures throughout the territory during large gatherings” in explicit reference to the latest attacks that occurred in Magdeburg, Germany and to New Orleansin the United States.
Denouncing “entryism” of the Muslim Brotherhood in the public sphere, the minister believes that measures will also have to be taken to defend secularism, citing sports competitions or school outings. In his eyes, “the 2004 law on religious symbols must be applied to these activities: school trips are school outside the walls”.
“The companions do not have to be veiled. The veil is not just a simple piece of fabric: it is a standard for Islamism, and a marker of the inferiorization of women in relation to the man”proclaimed the minister, calling for new legislative measures.
The minister also declared himself hostile to wearing the veil at university. Considering that “the breeding ground for terrorism is separatism and political Islam”Bruno Retailleau, however, refused to lead a fight against the Muslim religion.
“What is at stake,” he said, “are the conquests of the West such as gender equality, freedom of conscience or our French secularism.”
The minister also made a link between rampant Islamism and immigration.
