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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
In a press briefing during a visit to a synagogue in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt for the Jewish feast of Yom Kippur, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin declared that "we are at war against Islamic terrorism" and considered that "perhaps we have collectively put it a little behind us", two days after the cleaver attack in Paris. SOUNDBITE
Several dozen police cars, decked with flags and their horns honking, drive down the Champs-Elysées in Paris on their way to the interior ministry to protest recent comments by the government on police violence. The protest came at the behest of the police trade union Alliance in response to comments by interior minister Christophe Castaner, who recently acknowledged that too many officers "have failed in their Republican duty", with several instances of racist and discriminatory remarks revealed. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin arrives at the synagogue in Rouen, where he is greeted by the city's mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, after a knife-wielding man set fire to the building before being shot dead by police officers. IMAGES
Images from the "Les Sablons" school where a 15-year-old teenager was beaten up by several people on Thursday afternoon as he left his secondary school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris, and has since been hospitalised with a life-threatening condition. IMAGES
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