NICE: President Emmanuel Macron traveled to the French Mediterranean coast on Monday to speak about inside safety, making a pit cease within the metropolis the place an extremist drove a cargo truck into Bastille Day crowds in 2016, killing 86 folks and injuring a whole lot extra.
Macron has but to formally affirm he’s working for a second time period within the election this spring, however his go to to the French Rivera had marketing campaign overtones in a stronghold of Valérie Pécresse, a conservative who’s seen by many as his most vital challenger.
He was assembly with legislation enforcement officers, the judiciary and metropolis officers, checking progress on security-related tasks set in place in 2017 when he was elected.
Monday’s conferences had been set for the previous Saint Roch hospital, a Nineteenth-century constructing within the coronary heart of Previous Good. Macron will lay a basis stone for a state-funded police advanced the place over 2,000 nationwide and municipal officers will work along with state-of-the-art know-how, together with what Macron’s advisers referred to as an “city hyper-vison middle” that may rely totally on video surveillance.
Work is predicted to start out subsequent yr and grow to be operational in 2025.
In September, Macron introduced measures to make the police extra clear, together with the publication of inside investigation reviews and the creation of a parliamentary monitoring physique, in efforts to enhance public confidence eroded by scandals lately.
He additionally referred to as for extra coaching and training for the nation’s police pressure and coping with victims of home violence and sexual abuse and assault, and detailed the enforcement of a controversial legislation to fight radicalization after a sequence of Islamic extremist assaults.
