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The French senate is set to consider a new counterterrorism bill to tackle extremism following a spate of terrorist attacks.
French interior minister Gerald Darmanin will present the new intelligence bill at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
It will extend measures enabling authorities to shut down places of worship and better monitor those convicted of terrorism when they are released from prison.
President Emanuel Macron s government has introduced the legislation in a bid to tackle religious extremism.
The bill, which will allow the government to track foreign funding of mosques, has been condemned by some critics who see it as stigmatising Muslims.
More than 100
French fishermen are taking part in a blockade to stop lorries carrying fish from the UK in a protest against a Brexit fishing deal they dismiss as a sham.
Since Thursday night, protesters massed
at a checkpoint where lorries carrying fish from Britain into the northern French ports of Dunkirk and Calais are subject to hygiene checks, now that the UK has left the EU. French fishermen hold a banner as they block lorries carrying UK-landed fish to protest for the slow issuance of licenses to fish inside British waters. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
The fishermen set fire to pallets and tyres to stay warm at the Boulogne-sur-Mer checkpoint, in France s busiest fishing centre, leading to British lorries boycotting the port and changing their routes.