France’s prime minister, Manuel Valls, has announced that the government is proposing new laws to allow for tighter surveillance of terrorist suspects. And in one sign of the current atmosphere, a man convicted of drunken driving had his sentence upped to four years in part for a rant praising the attacks.
The government is also beefing up domestic security by deploying 10,000 troops around the country. Many of them will be guarding Jewish sites, which had come under increasing threat even before last week’s hostage crisis at a kosher grocery store in Paris.
These moves are all the more striking considering that French counterterrorism forces already have some of the most sweeping powers in the democratic world.
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