“We must ensure that the action taken is sustained and here I am talking about all the measures taken to foresee attacks, deter them and stop them”, he said.
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Hollande said France is also seeking a meeting by the end of the year where Israel and then Palestinians will have both the capacity and responsibility to negotiate a solution to their conflict based on two states living side by side in peace and security.
“Our country had never been attacked to this extent, with such destructive rage, with such barbarian cruelty”.
French President Francois Hollande said on Monday more resources were needed to combat terrorism in a country where more than 230 people have been killed in militant attacks since the start of 2015. “That’s why it was so important for names, all names to be evoked”, said President François Hollande, who was present at the ceremony.
“I say to the Syrian government’s foreign backers that they must compel the regime to enforce peace, otherwise they will bear the responsibility for the splitting up of the country and the chaos”, Hollande said in an address to the U.N. General Assembly in NY.
He insisted on the need for support, protection and help for survivors and their families.
France has been hit by terrorist attacks in the a year ago, as 130 people were gunned down at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris and a truck attack on pedestrians left 86 dead in southern France’s city of Nice. The government has since increased its hiring of police and placed thousands of police and soldiers on the streets to guard sensitive sites.
An the past 12 months have proven to be devastating for France, with 238 people losing their lives to terrorists since last January 2015.
The names of the Paris and Nice attack victims were read aloud at the ceremony, according to USA Today.
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The boy had just turned 16, prosecutors’ spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre told The Associated Press, identifying the suspect only by his first name, Dylan.
