After the assassination of a teacher in Arras, the Elysée and the government want all individual situations to be re-examined, in particular those of people in an irregular situation.
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It’s necessary “to embody a ruthless State against those who carry hatred and ideas terrorists”, assures the Elysée. Three days after the assassination of French teacher Dominique Bernard in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), the Ministry of the Interior will send to the prefects a circular asking them to re-examine the file of people registered in the file for processing reports for the prevention of radicalization of a terrorist nature (FSPRT), France Télévisions learned on Sunday October 15.
The prefects will have to bring together the departmental evaluation groups, systems created in 2014 to prevent violent radicalization, in order to re-study each individual situation and, in particular, that of people in an irregular situation. They will then be able to speed up the eviction procedures. “when applicable”.
More than 5,000 people affected
“The line of firmness is extremely clear”, had already warned Gérald Darmanin on Saturday during a press conference. The FSPRT counts “around 5,100 people”in “majority” of the “people who are French”, but also foreigners in a regular or irregular situation. The Minister of the Interior asked “the identification throughout the national territory of those who are dangerous, the systematic withdrawal of the residence permit for those who are foreigners, the systematic expulsion of any foreigner (…) considered dangerous by the intelligence services”.
Mohammed M., still in police custody after the terrorist attack in Arras, was monitored by the intelligence services, registered with the FSPRT and on S file. Aged 20, this Russian from the Caucasus arrived in France before he was 13. He is in France without a residence permit, but cannot be expelled. Because of its profile, the Ministry of the Interior asks the prefects to strengthen the surveillance of young men from the Caucasus aged between 16 and 25 and with whom a “very strong form of radicalization” was detected. Prefects are also invited to report sensitive sites which must be protected within the framework of the Sentinel system.