Interior Minister wants to draw consequences after Alsace attack

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Interior Minister wants to draw consequences after Alsace attack

A passerby dies in a suspected terrorist act in France, three people are injured. President Macron speaks of Islamism as a motive. His interior minister wants something to change.

France’s Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau calls for the alleged terrorist attack in the Alsatian Mulhouse consequences. In the future, he not only wants to keep dangerous people who are subject to deprivation, but also to keep in custody for the time, as Retailleau said after the attack in the 100,000-inhabitant city near the border with Baden-Württemberg. The police arrested an Algerian as a suspected perpetrator. Since its home country had blocked a deportation, the minister now demands a harder gait.

In the crime on Saturday afternoon, the attacker near a market in Mulhouse (Mülhausen) attacked several people and called “Allahu Akbar” (such as “God is most” in Arabic), according to the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office “Allahu Akbar). According to the Interior Ministry, he was armed with a knife and a screwdriver. President Emmanuel Macron spoke of an Islamistically motivated terrorist attack. It is determined for killing and attempted killing with terrorist reference.

A 69-year-old passer-by from Portugal died in the attack. Three people were injured – according to the investigators, they are police officers, Interior Minister Retailleau spoke of employees of the town hall to monitor parking.

The alleged perpetrator was overwhelmed about ten minutes after the start of the attack and taken into police custody. According to the Ministry of the Interior, it is a 37-year-old Algerian, who is obliged to leave, with psychological problems. France had tried several times to bring the man condemned to glorify the terrorist. Algeria had not withdrawn his own citizen, who had entered France irregularly in 2014.

Most recently, the Algerian was under a kind of house arrest and should have reported to the police every day. But on Saturday he didn’t. Interior Minister Retailleau now wants to raise harener strings and threatens to tighten the visar rules and to abolish certain special rights for people from the former French colony.

Retailleau said that an irregular migrant, who is a criminal record and mentally ill, could move freely, was not to be conveyed to the French. Such people should be detained until deportation. Deportation is currently limited in France.

The act caused horror in the country, which has repeatedly become the goal of terrorist attacks in recent years. President Macron expressed his condolences to the victims and relatives. The mayor of Mulhouse, Michèle Lutz, wrote on Facebook: “The horror took our city.”