France draws up the bill; Jihadist websites to be cast under surveillance
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Paris, Apr 28: France plans to strengthen its counter-terrorism laws by permitting the use of algorithims to detect activity on jihadist and other extremist websites. Draft legislation was submitted to President Emmanuel Macron and his govt at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
The draft was submitted to the cabinet after a wave of Islamist and Islamist-inspired attacks on French soil in recent years, including last Friday when a lady policeman Sophie was attacked by a Jihadist. While speaking to France Inter radio Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said, "The last nine attacks on French soil were committed by individuals who were unknown to the security services, who were not on a watchlist and were not suspected of being radicalised. "That should cause us to ask questions about the intelligence methods we're using."
According to REUTERS , France enacted a counter-terrorism law in 2017 to replace a state of emergency declared two years earlier following the attack on Paris by Islamist suicide bombers and gunmen. The 2017 law, which was subject to review after four years, allowed security agencies to use algorithims to monitor messaging apps, as well bolstering police surveillance measures such as 'home visits' to individuals suspected of terrorism links and the restricting the movement of people.
The new bill would render those measures permanent and extend the use of algorithims to websites. Darmanin said, "Terrorists have changed the methods of communication. We continue to be blind, monitoring phone lines that nobody uses any more."
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