French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned that the country must be prepared for more deadly attacks and will have to learn to live with the threat. Valls said suspected islamist Reda Kriket, arrested near Paris in March with an arsenal of weapons, had definitely been planning to target the Euro 2016 football tournament in France.
His warning came after President Francois Hollande said he was willing to extend France’s state of emergency for another six months following the Bastille Day massacre in Nice in which 84 people were killed.
French MPs will now mull a fourth extension of the eight-month-old state of emergency, as criticism mounts of the Socialist government’s response to a slew of extremist attacks. Hollande, speaking during a visit to Portugal, urged the whole of Europe to make defence an absolute priority.