French President Emmanual Macron has ordered records relating to migrants who have links to terrorism be ‘gone through with a fine tooth comb’.
Le Figaro reported that Macron gave instructions to French authorities telling them to be “ruthless” in their quest to isolate and deport those with terrorist links who “carry hatred and terrorist ideologies”.
Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin was instructed to send a circular instructing prefects to inspect the files of ‘radicalised’ migrants within a 48 hour period.
The Minister emphasised that the over 300 individuals who are currently imprisoned or under house arrest would be “systematically” deported after completion of their sentences.
Darmanin has said that of the over 20,000 so-called ‘S files’ on migrants with suspected links to Islamic extremism – some of which are no longer active – there are at least 489 persons living in France who are considered to be a danger to public safety.
The moves come after teacher Dominique Bernard was allegedly stabbed to death by a man who shouted Allah Akbar during an attack which took place at a middle school in Arras last Friday.
It was reported that the suspect, Mohamed Mogouchkov, who has been described as an ‘Islamist’ already had a file relating to suspected radicalisation open on him.
Mogouchkov was reportedly the subject of a deportation order in 2014 which was quashed.
The father of the ethnic Chechen who is a national of Russia was deported from France in relation to extremist links while the brother of the accused is serving time in prison for ‘terrorist attack preparation’.
The Russian Embassy in France issued a statement saying that although a Russian passport holder Mogouchkov was ‘radicalised in France’
“We would like to draw attention to the fact that he arrived in France at the age of five and has lived in this country ever since. It is obvious that his radicalisation did not take place in Russia ,” it said.
Last June a Syrian national allegedly stabbed four nursery school children at a park in the French town of Annecy in an attack which was partially captured on video.
The 31 year old who had been granted asylum status in Sweden was identified as Abdalmasih H and reportedly left his Swedish wife and 3 year old daughter to pursue asylum status in France.