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In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin welcomes British Home Secretary James Cleverly at the French Interior Ministry at the Hotel de Beauvau, in Paris. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin pays tribute to the victims of an attack on October 3rd, 2019 at a police station, which left four dead and one injured, during a ceremony at the Paris police headquarters. IMAGES
"This mural shocks me," says French interior minister Christophe Castaner, referring to a mural "against racism and police violence" depicting the faces of George Floyd and Adama Traoré. It is an "amalgam", adds Castaner, in response to a question from the left-wing opposition in the National Assembly. SOUNDBITE
One year after the attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner travelled to the city for the this year's opening of the famous annual festive fair. The minister was given a tour of the "enhanced" security measures in place around France's most famous Christmas market. IMAGES