2024-04-03 09:30:00
Italy also joined in increasing surveillance and security in the area.
France is back in maximum alert for terrorist attack after the attack that occurred last Friday March 22th for him Islamic State in Moscow, Russia, in a concert hall, leaving 137 dead.
The announcement was made by the French Prime Minister, Gabriel AttalIt is Sunday March 24.
From January the country had relaxed your alert levels what They were at their highest since October. last year, after the death of a teacher in the north of the country, after a former student who sympathized with the Islamic State attacked him.
Why did France increase its threat levels after the attack on Moscow?
After the meeting of the Defense Council, the French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attalpublished through X: “Given the claim of the attack by the Islamic State and the threats that weigh on our country, We have decided to raise the Vigipirate plan to its highest level: urgency attack“.
The president of FranceEmmanuel Macronfor his part, led this meeting to address the attack in Moscow and its possible consequences, since, with only four months until the Olympic Games of Paristhe security during the event It is one of the most worrying issues.
This Monday, during the morning, the French president confirmed that this branch of the Islamic State has already had made several attempts in recent months on French soil and asked the Kremlin “not to instrumentalize” the attack.
“One has to avoid any instrumentalization or distortion, and be demanding and effective. That is the spirit with which we move forward and I hope that Russia does the same,” Emmanuel Macron asserted before the press.
Likewise, the French president has been warning for several weeks that Putin increased the aggressiveness of his stances in the war against Ukraineand even said that “sending troops should not be ruled out to the area” something that the European allies had ruled out.
Not only in France, Italy joins the maximum alert
Italy also decided reinforce the level of surveillance and security before the upcoming Easter holidays, as reported this Monday by the Ministry of the Interior after a review of national security following the attack in Moscow.
“In anticipation of the upcoming Easter holidays, an intensification of surveillance and control activities by the police has been agreed“, it was indicated through a statement, where emphasis was placed on the fact that special attention will be paid to “all sensitive targets“.
As reported by EFE, the European Commission (EC) recalled this Monday that raising the terrorist alert level It is a national competition. after France and Italy have increased it.