Macron pledges to do ‘everything’ to prevent more Paris attacks
President Emmanuel Macron pledged Thursday that France would do everything to avoid a repeat of the jihadist attacks in Paris 10 years ago that took the lives of 130 people.
“Everything will be done to prevent any new attack and to ruthlessly punish those who would dare to attempt it,” he said.
The sole surviving member of the 10-person jihadist cell that staged the attacks, 36-year-old Salah Abdeslam, is serving life in jail.
The other nine attackers blew themselves up or were killed by police in the attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.
US-backed forces in 2019 defeated the last remnants of the IS proto-state straddling parts of Syria and Iraq that inspired the Paris attacks.
But Macron warned of another form of jihadism that he called “internal, insidious, less detectable, and less predictable”.
