Some of the measures announced include greater surveillance to root out terrorist suspects, augmenting the numbers of intelligence officers, gendarmes and police, apart from better and more sophisticated equipment for security services. It may be recalled that three police officers had lost their lives in the recent attacks in Paris, which started when gunmen stormed the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The improved surveillance programs include measures to prevent youngsters from becoming radicalized, the separation of religious fundamentalists in prisons and the prosecution of those who spread or support terrorism on the internet. In addition to these measures, constitutional experts are examining possibilities of whether convicted terrorists who hold dual nationality can be stripped of their French citizenship.
Already, over 122,000 police and military personnel – including 10,500 troops – have been deployed all over France to protect public places. Moreover, French security services have at present nearly 3,000 people under surveillance. Out of them, about 1,300 were French – or foreigners living in France – and they are suspected of having links with terrorists networks in Syria and Iraq in the past year.
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