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French president calls for coalition to ‘fight terrorist army’ and dispatches aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to eastern Mediterranean
François Hollande has said France’s airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria will be intensified after the terror attacks that killed 129 people in Paris on Friday, with the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle set to leave for the eastern Mediterranean, tripling the country’s air capacity in the region.
Addressing both houses of parliament at the Palace of Versailles on Monday, the French president said the country was engaged in “a war against jihadi terrorism”. The sponsors of the carnage in the capital “must know that their crimes further strengthen the determination of France to fight them and to destroy them”, he said.
“More strikes are needed, and we will carry them out,” Hollande added. “More support for all fighting against Isis is needed, and France will provide it. But we need a union of all who can fight this terrorist army in a single coalition.”
Hollande said he would be meeting Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin in the coming weeks to discuss more effective pooling of France’s resources with those of the US and Russia.
Hollande told parliament French law must allow dual nationals to be stripped of their citizenship if they were convicted of terrorism. Photograph: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images
Announcing an extension of France’s national state of emergency to three months, Hollande also called for constitutional reforms to allow the state to better counter the new terrorist menace.
French law must allow dual nationals to be stripped of their citizenship if they were convicted of terrorism, and banned from entering France if they presented a terrorism risk, he said.
He said 5,000 more police officers – mainly anti-terrorist and border forces – would be hired, and that no further cuts would be made to military personnel until at least 2019.
Hollande also demanded the swift and effective introduction of “coordinated and systematic controls” at the EU’s external borders to avoid the reappearance of national frontiers and dismantling of the European Union.
Among a raft of further measures, he demanded asylum should be granted to refugees entitled to it, but those who are not must leave France; that more must be done to combat illegal arms trafficking; and surveillance of returning jihadis must be improved.
“But France must stay the same,” the president said. “The barbarians who want to disfigure it … must not be allowed to change France’s soul.”
The country’s “values, culture, youth, way of life” would be preserved, he concluded, because “no barbarians will prevent us from living how we have decided to live. To live fully. Terrorism will never destroy the Republic, because the Republic will destroy terrorism.”
France to intensify airstrikes against Isis in Syria | World news | The Guardian
François Hollande has said France’s airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria will be intensified after the terror attacks that killed 129 people in Paris on Friday, with the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle set to leave for the eastern Mediterranean, tripling the country’s air capacity in the region.
Addressing both houses of parliament at the Palace of Versailles on Monday, the French president said the country was engaged in “a war against jihadi terrorism”. The sponsors of the carnage in the capital “must know that their crimes further strengthen the determination of France to fight them and to destroy them”, he said.
“More strikes are needed, and we will carry them out,” Hollande added. “More support for all fighting against Isis is needed, and France will provide it. But we need a union of all who can fight this terrorist army in a single coalition.”
Hollande said he would be meeting Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin in the coming weeks to discuss more effective pooling of France’s resources with those of the US and Russia.
Hollande told parliament French law must allow dual nationals to be stripped of their citizenship if they were convicted of terrorism. Photograph: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images
Announcing an extension of France’s national state of emergency to three months, Hollande also called for constitutional reforms to allow the state to better counter the new terrorist menace.
French law must allow dual nationals to be stripped of their citizenship if they were convicted of terrorism, and banned from entering France if they presented a terrorism risk, he said.
He said 5,000 more police officers – mainly anti-terrorist and border forces – would be hired, and that no further cuts would be made to military personnel until at least 2019.
Hollande also demanded the swift and effective introduction of “coordinated and systematic controls” at the EU’s external borders to avoid the reappearance of national frontiers and dismantling of the European Union.
Among a raft of further measures, he demanded asylum should be granted to refugees entitled to it, but those who are not must leave France; that more must be done to combat illegal arms trafficking; and surveillance of returning jihadis must be improved.
“But France must stay the same,” the president said. “The barbarians who want to disfigure it … must not be allowed to change France’s soul.”
The country’s “values, culture, youth, way of life” would be preserved, he concluded, because “no barbarians will prevent us from living how we have decided to live. To live fully. Terrorism will never destroy the Republic, because the Republic will destroy terrorism.”
France to intensify airstrikes against Isis in Syria | World news | The Guardian
