France, struggling to regain a sense of normalcy after the Bastille Day atrocity in Nice, was stunned again by the murder of a priest in Normandy. It’s just the latest in a string of attacks over the course of the last several years, which have left the French government struggling to find new resources to use to investigate and stop terror. Meanwhile, the French press has debated how best to report the aftermath of attacks.
The night of the attack in Nice, French president François Hollande called upon his defense and interior ministers to mobilize 10,000 soldiers, in addition to police and gendarmes in order to provide additional security. Now, in a secondary effort to boost security on the ground, Hollande is recreating a force from France’s past—calling for the creation of a National Guard “for the protection of the French people.”
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