“The first emergency, the first requirement is to further strengthen the human and technical resources of the intelligence services.”
This is the conviction of Manuel Valls, who detailed as part of a press conference Wednesday, January 21 the means recommended by the government to fight against the terrorist emergency in France, after the deadly attacks that killed 17 people Paris.
- € 735 million over three years
Prime Minister announced plans to mobilize, “over the next three years” € 425 million in total of “investment loans, equipment and operation” .
The building plan of the “fight against terrorism” includes major arms purchases and material protection agents. Matignon has also told AFP that including personnel costs, the sum would be about € 735 million over three years.
These expenses will still “offset by economies (…) on the entire field of public expenditure, year after year “, assured Manuel Valls.
- 2,680 additional jobs created in three years
Over the next three years, the French government include the creation of 2,680 new jobs dedicated to the fight against terrorism. 1400 will be created in the Ministry of the Interior (including 540 in 2015), 950 to the Ministry of Justice, 250 to the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Finance 80, said Manuel Valls.
On 1,400 new police jobs, 1.100 “will be directly affected in the intelligence units responsible for the fight against terrorism, including 500 in the Directorate General of Internal Security (ISB), 500 within the territorial headquarters intelligence Territorial (350 policemen and 150 gendarmes) and 100 to the intelligence directorate of the police headquarters in Paris “, added the Prime Minister.
- A draft Law on Intelligence in Parliament “early March”
The bill on intelligence will also be forwarded to Parliament “early March” after “presented as soon as possible in the Council of Ministers” , said Manuel Valls. Adding:
“Beyond the unprecedented capacity building, it is essential to strengthen the capacity for action of the intelligence services.”
The head of government stressed that “the 1991 law on interceptions was designed before the internet. The legal framework actually led operations is deficient” . This “is not satisfactory in terms of legal security of transactions, either in terms of public freedoms”, he insisted
He promised.
“Now all the operations performed in the country will benefit from the legitimacy of the law and will be subject to specific authorization. This will be a protective Text civil liberties, as each transaction will be subject to an independent external audit, under the supervision of a specialized court. Proportionality of authorized means of surveillance will be the focus of control operations. “
The common file of personal data of air passengers, before the European Parliament, “will be operational in France in September 2015,” .
- A website dedicated to the information against the jihadist indoctrination
The government also plans to set up a website for the general public to provide information on the ways fight “against jihadist indoctrination, especially young people” . It will be launched “within three days to come” .
More generally, “in the next three years, 60 million euros will be specifically devoted to preventing radicalization “, promised Manuel Valls.
- A term of national indignity to the study
The head of government also wants a “transpartisan reflection” conducted by Parliament on the reactivation of a term of national indignity and proposals within six weeks.
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