French MPs back tighter terror laws

PARIS: French MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of tightening the country's anti-terror laws, including placing curbs on the movements of convicted radicals and using algorithms to detect online extremists.

The attack was the latest in a wave of assaults that has claimed over 250 lives since 2015 and which intensified again last autumn when a schoolteacher was beheaded for showing his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Scores of people convicted of terror offences or links during a wave of attacks in France starting in 2015 are due for release in the coming years, causing a high degree of nervousness among the authorities."Very dangerous people ...will be getting out of prison and we don't have the tools necessary to ensure they are monitored," Yael Braun-Pivet, a lawmaker from Macron's Republic on the Move party warned in a report last year.

It also permits the intelligence services to use algorithms to search for people who, for example, repeatedly search for terror propaganda.

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