State of emergency is extended again

This will be the longest since the creation of the measure in the 1950s, linked to the Algerian War. The justification for the extension was to cover the per­iod of the presidential elections, which are judged to have heightened risk of terrorist attack.

This comes as the ‘Vigipirate’ anti-terrorist plan was reclassified into three levels, including a new ‘urgence attentat’ one, which is currently in place in Ile-de-France, a maximum level for when an attack is imminent or one has just happened.