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From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
French parliament to probe handling of 2015 attacks
The French parliament will create a commission to investigate the government’s handling of last year’s attacks in the country, the parliamentary leader of the opposition Republicans party says Tuesday.
The probe into “the resources put in place by the state to fight terrorism since January 7, 2015” — the date of an attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo — will begin soon, Christian Jacobs tells reporters.
Four days after the jihadist terror attacks of November 13 claimed 130 lives in the French capital, Jacob said his parliamentary group was likely to ask for the probe “so that the French people will know the whole truth about the conditions in which these attacks could have happened.”
A policeman stands guard, on January 21, 2015, in front the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed four Jewish men on January 9, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)
–AFP
