With overwhelming support, lawmakers gave the green light to the government to prolong the state of emergency aimed at empowering police to conduct house searches and arrest presumed terrorist suspects.
"This will translate into concrete results to continue the fight against terrorism, to ensure the protection of the French. Freedom and security do not conflict with each other," Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told the parliament.
"When you strengthen security, you don't take away civil liberties. You preserve them, and sometimes you enhance them," he added.
The emergency rules were imposed in the wake of the November 2015 deadly terror incident in which a group of armed attackers stormed restaurants, a theater hall and a soccer stadium, killing 130 people. Five extensions of the measure have taken place since.
The status offers more power to arrest presumed terrorists without judicial warrants.
[Xinhua/globaltimes.cn]
7/7/17
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