France to tap phones, rethink educatiom

The French government is working on new phone-tapping and other intelligence efforts against terrorism that it wants nailed down by next week, government spokesman Stephane Le Foll says.

The government is also launching a deeper project to rethink education, urban policies and its integration model, in an apparent recognition that the attacks exposed deeper problems of inequality both in France and especially at its neglected, often violence-ridden suburban housing projects.

Earlier, the Justice Ministry announced that several of the 54 people — including four minors — who have been detained for defending or verbally threatening terrorism since the Charlie Hebdo attack have already been convicted under special measures for immediate sentencing.

— AP, Times of Israel staff