Donnerstag, 21. April 2016

state of emergency extension in France

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I was reading an article the other day in the online edition of BBC News and it talks about the state of emergency extension for EURO 2016 in France.

I thought you might be interested because the majority of us is going to watch a football game on our trip to France.

It has now been a topic since November 2015, when the Paris attacks happened.

Basically, the article relates that the French government plans to extend a state of emergency, which was imposed after the Paris attacks in November, to cover the Euro 2016 football tournament.

It also says that the current state of emergency, which gives police extra powers to conduct searches and place people under house arrest, runs until 26 May. The state of emergency was last extended for three months in February.

As you might know, the Stade de France football stadium, which was targeted by suicide bombers, will host the opening match of Euro 2016 and the final.

What interested me most was that the French government instruct 1,200 security officials to care for safety in the Stade de France football stadium and an average of 900 across all stadiums.

What shocked me most was that on Friday last week more than 3,500 searches and 400 arrests had been carried out since the state of Emergency was first imposed in November.

What do you think about the safety measures in France?




See you later alligator

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