France Proposes More Surveillance to Hunt for Potential Terrorists
The new bill, which some fear will curtail civil liberties, comes after a series of attacks and as the far right is stoking feelings of insecurity.
“We continue to be blind, doing surveillance on normal phone lines that nobody uses any longer,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, second from left, said of why he had proposed the bill.Credit...Philippe Lopez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
April 28, 2021Updated 1:58 p.m. ET
PARIS — The French government, responding to several attacks over the past seven months, presented a new anti-terrorism bill on Wednesday that would allow intense algorithmic surveillance of phone and internet communications and tighten restrictions on convicted terrorists emerging from prison.