Friday, January 22, 2016

France Announce Permanent Police State Until ISIS Is ‘Defeated’

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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said that France will keep its state of emergency status until ISIS have been completely defeated, hinting at a more permanent police state in France.  The emergency measures were initially introduced after the Paris attacks on the 13th November 2015. Police in France currently have extended powers to conduct raids and impose house arrests without a court order. BBC News reports: Mr Valls also warned that Europe’s migration crisis was now putting the European Union itself at grave risk. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to hold talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Berlin . EU countries hope Turkey will help to control the flow of migrants reaching the EU from Syria and other conflict zones. Interviewed by the BBC’s chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Valls said France was “at war”, which meant “using all means in our democracy under the rule of law to protect French people”. When asked how long he envisaged the state of emergency remaining, Mr Valls said: “The time necessary. We cannot always live all the time in a state of emergency.” “As long as the threat is [...]

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