He said that starting this week public bodies including schools would have to take steps to “identify and tackle” radicalization.
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The father of gunman Seifeddine Rezgui who massacred 38 mostly British tourists in Tunisian holiday resort Sousse said his son was cultured and hard-working and had been “brainwashed”.
Three days after the attacks, there was growing frustration among families of the missing at the lack of information.At least six families are desperate for news.
“It’s like they disappeared”, he told CNN over the weekend. He echoed numerous accounts from tourists and hotel employees of the bond between them. Their luggage, passports and money were still in their room, but the couple weren’t there.
Forensic evidence shows Rezgui, a student who gave few clues to family and friends that he had been radicalized, was probably the only gunman, though others may have been involved in planning and organising the attack.
“Where can they be?” He said IS posed “an existential threat” to the West, and its members in Iraq and Syria were plotting “terrible attacks” on British soil.
“We will be united in working together to defeat them but united also in working to defend our values”, May said.
Interior Minister Mohamed Najem Gharsalli announced late Saturday the deployment of 1,000 extra police officers at tourist sites and beaches.
The attack was later claimed by the Islamic State, and the way it was executed appears to have been clearly designed to help destroy Tunisia’s tourism industry. “We are home, some of them aren’t”. A woman who was hiding next to the hotel’s spa pool said she saw a man wearing black standing concealed in the stairwell throughout the duration of the attack, who was either a lookout for the gunman or a security officer.
Friday’s attack on the Imperial Marhaba Hotel shook the North African nation, that thrives on tourism and has struggled since its 2011 revolution to be the one Arab Spring country that succeeds in politically transitioning from authoritarianism to democracy. So they are not advising against visiting the popular tourist resorts.
Speaking to reporters from the Riu Imperial Marhaba hotel that the lone shooter had targeted, May vowed to fight back against extremists.
Some guests lay in the sun in areas still riddled with bullet marks.
“It is the most hard type of attack to detect and predict and therefore the most hard kind to protect against”. But Folker Schumacher, a tax inspector from Stuttgart, Germany, was in the sea.
A football club said it was “deeply shocked and saddened” by the death of one of its ex- players and his wife.
The gunman, Mr Rezgui is not believed to have worked alone and authorities are now looking for an accomplice.
He also said France is “determined to win the war against terrorism”.
The Government’s position contrasts to that adopted by Nigel Farage, who said this weekend he has decided not to visit Africa this summer as it is “just not safe” in light of the Tunisia attack.
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A new Tunisian anti-terrorism law that would broaden police powers and provide for harsher penalties has been stuck in committees since the start of 2014.
