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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
Norway's newly appointed Prime minister Jonas Gahr Store pays tribute in Kongsberg to the victims of the bow-and-arrow attack that left five people dead in the small south-eastern town. Together with the Minister of Justice and Public security Emilie Enger Mehl, Store lays flowers and lights candles at a vigil held in the city. IMAGES
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
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin lays a wreath at a ceremony in homage to the victims of the attack of 14 July 2016 in Nice, which killed 86 people. IMAGES
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