French Government Seeks to Extend Emergency Rule! Frankenstein?

nsnbc : French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Friday as his government sought to extend emergency rule that was put in place in November 2015, following terrorist attacks in Paris. 

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls

PM Manuel Valls argued that the extension was justified because the emergency rule allowed police conduct thousands of house searches since November and because some 2,000 French residents were believed to be involved with “Jihadi networks” based in Syria and Iraq.

Valls did not make any reference to his predecessor, the former French Foreign Minister and senior Statesman Roland Dumas who stressed that top-British officials had asked him, in 2009, whether he wanted to participate in ousting the Syrian government with help of “rebels”.

Valls did not make any reference to the fact that the masterminds behind the Paris attacks were known by French and other European intelligence services before they carried out the attacks.  Neither did Valls make any reference to the fact that the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS /ISIL / Daesh) was created by US and Saudi intelligence, or that the final decision to invade Iraq with ISIS, as nsnbc researched, fell on the sidelines of the Atlantic Council’s Energy Summit in Turkey, in November 2013.

Valls did not mention either, that the European Union, on April 22, 2013, decided to lift its embargo on the import of Syrian oil from “Rebel-Held Territories”.

But Frankenstein

What French PM Manuel Valls did mention was that there was a need to extend the Emergency Rule that strips French citizens for otherwise constitutionally guaranteed civil rights, due procedure and process. The comparison with the monster unleashed by Frankenstein in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel comes to mind. Valls said “The terrorist threat is here, and here to last.”

In the three months since the so-called Paris Attacks, French police have carried out 3,289 house searches, placed 341 people in custody, put 407 under house arrest and confiscated 560 weapons, 42 of them war-grade, said Valls. The PM claimed that half of the 2,000 people involved in some way or other with jihadist networks in Syria and Iraq had left France for that region, and 597 were still there. Valls did not mention how many of the house searches arrests, detentions and house arrests would have been illegal were it not for the “emergency rules”.

CH/L – nsnbc 05.02.2016

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