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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
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin arrives at the Ile-de-France Gendarmerie regional training centre, for a meeting with security forces over measures for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and in particular the security arrangements for the Olympic Torch Relay. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin awarded medals to the nine police officers who responded to subdue a radicalised young man who had just killed a high school teacher on 13 October 2023, in Arras, northern France. IMAGES
As the French President anounces a new Prime Minister and amidst rumours of an impending cabinet reshuffle, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says he hasn't finished his mission at the ministry. Speaking at the appointment ceremony for Celine Berthon, the new director of France's intelligence office DGSI, Darmanin expressed his desire to stay on. SOUNDBITE
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