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France ups security after spate of attacks
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FRENCH Prime Minister Manuel Valls said yesterday that security would be stepped up nationwide following three successive, apparently unrelated bloody attacks, in a bid to ease growing unease in the country.
While the motives behind the incidents — a knife attack on police and two cases of cars ploughing into passersby — remain unclear, the violence has jarred nerves after repeated jihadist calls for “lone wolf” action in France over its fight against Islamic extremism.
“Fear over Christmas” declared Le Parisien daily, while Le Figaro newspaper wrote a front-page editorial headlined “enemies from within.”
Valls stressed that the three incidents were “distinct,” urging the French to keep calm while stressing security would be heightened.
“The number of patrols will be increased during this (Christmas) period.
Two hundred to 300 extra soldiers will be deployed in the coming hours” on top of the 780 already on patrol, he said live on television.
The violence began on Saturday when a man reportedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” was shot dead after walking into a police station in the town of Joue-les-Tours and attacking three officers with a knife, two of whom were seriously injured.
Then on Sunday, a driver ploughed into pedestrians in Dijon, injuring 13 people.
And on Monday night, another man rammed into a bustling Christmas market with his car in the western city of Nantes, injuring 10 people — one of them critically — before stabbing himself repeatedly and being arrested.
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