Tag: Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve

Policewoman claims ministry pressured her on Nice attack

by Pierre ROCHICCIOLI Bertrand PINON PARIS, France (AFP) — A fresh crisis hit France’s government Sunday when a senior policewoman claimed the interior ministry pressured her to alter a report into security at the Nice fireworks display where 84 were killed when a man rammed a lorry into the crowd. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve — whose account of police deployments on the night of July 14 celebrations has already faced questions — has been the […]

Two French police killed in attack claimed by Islamic State

  (Reuters)  A suspected Islamist attacker stabbed a French police commander to death outside his home and later killed his companion, a policewoman, in an attack claimed by Islamic State and denounced by the government as “an abject act of terrorism”. The assailant, a 25-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, was jailed in 2013 for helping Islamist militants go to Pakistan and had been under security service surveillance, including wiretaps, at the time of the attack, […]