country where people very much value their civil liberties. but people here that we ve been speaking to seem accepting of the situation, that this, they believe, is what is necessary to prevent further bloodshed. absolutely. erin mclachlan in paris, thank you very much for your reporting. now to germany where protests have been building over recent days after a series of attacks and muggings during cologne s new year s eve celebrations. the criminal complaints include at least 120 claims of sexual assault. investigators have identified 31 suspect and say more than half of them are asylum-sukers. angry democrat seekers. angry demonstrators are questioning the policy on accepting migrants. coming up, a live report and the fallout from this year s new year s eve attacks. mexico is sending the world s top drug lord back to the same prison where he
out attacks on law enforcement. our main concern at the moment today is the well being, health, recovery of officer hard net. it s confounding and astonishing that he was able to escape like this. i can t say enough for his bravery and how he conducted himself. miguel marquez reporting. still to come, the donald trump campaign has been accused of islamaphobia before. we ll tell you why there may be more of that criticism ahead after a rally in south carolina.
volition, perhaps self-radicalized. difficult to predict, difficult to prevent. in the words of the french prosecutor, authorities here in france have no reason, they say, to be optimistic. lynda? and talking about how authorities can prevent another attack, explain the security situation there and how are people dealing with this. obviously the commemorations coming less than two months after the last major attack which left 130 people dead. reporter: i wouldn t say people here are afraid. they seem to be going about their business as usual. people i have talked to say that they are accepting of what the government is saying which is that france is at war. people also seem to be accepting of what the government is doing as a result. for instance, in the wake of the charlie hebdo attacks, legislation was passed that it would increase government powers
fallen police officer, simply doing her job when she was killed by amedy coulibaly. french president hollande is there, as well as her family, as well as her fellow police officers to remember her sacrifice and remember her really. and these commemorations of course come a couple of month after the last attack in paris that left 130 dead. give us a sense of the security situation there. reporter: people here are on edge. the people i ve been talking to say that they aren t necessarily afraid, but they are certainly aware and accepting in some respects of the extraordinary measures that the government has had to take in the wake of not only the charlie hebdo attacks but also in the wake of the november 13th attacks which killed 130 people in paris.
we begin in paris where french president hollande is honoring the life lost of a police officer taken down by a terrorist a day before storming a kosher supermarket where he killed four people. police killed the gunman after a standoff. paris has spent the week remembering people killed in a string of attacks last january. erin mclachlan now from paris with more. and no doubt a somber mood there today. reporter: it is a somber mood as they remember 25-year-old clarissa jean-philippe. she s a police officer just doing her job as she stopped m amedy coulibaly after a traffic accident. he shot her and tried to open