{"id":167364,"date":"2015-11-16T17:53:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=167364"},"modified":"2015-11-16T17:53:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:53:03","slug":"paris-attacks-hollande-vows-to-destroy-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=167364","title":{"rendered":"Paris attacks: Hollande vows to destroy IS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">France is committed to &#8220;destroying&#8221; the so-called Islamic State group after Friday&#8217;s deadly attacks, President Francois Hollande has said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he would table a bill to extend the state of emergency declared after the attacks for three months and would suggest changes to the constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">France&#8217;s military campaign against IS in Iraq and Syria will also intensify.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IS says it carried out the attacks on bars, restaurants, a concert hall and a stadium in which 129 people died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking during a joint session of both houses of parliament, Mr Hollande said the constitution needed to be amended as &#8220;we need an appropriate tool we can use without having to resort to the state of emergency&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other measures he said would be pursued included:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">5,000 extra police posts in the next two years and no new cuts in the defence budget<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Making it easier to strip dual nationals of their French citizenship if they are convicted of a terrorist offence, as long as this did not render them stateless<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Speeding up the deportation of foreigners who pose &#8220;a particularly grave threat to the security of the nation&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Pushing for greater European action against arms trafficking and greater penalties for it in France<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Hollande said he would travel to meet US President Barack Obama and Russian Vladimir Putin in the coming days to discuss action against the group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He reiterated his opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remaining in power but said &#8220;our enemy in Syria is Daesh [IS]&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He promised more resources for the security forces and said the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier would be sent on Thursday to bolster the military campaign against IS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was a solemn speech in which one felt the president genuinely striving &#8211; under the weight of appalling circumstance &#8211; to give service to the nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He knows that the people expect a riposte. He said it would come in two forms: military and judicial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Syria there will intensified strikes, and new co-ordination with the US and Russia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In France there will be a three-month extension of the state of emergency; more police and magistrates; possible powers to strip dual nationals of French citizenship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There will also be a reform of the constitution &#8211; creating a new status short of all-out war in which exceptional powers can be handed to police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But President Hollande is better at empathy than at talking tough. His opponents will give him slack because today no-one wants to expose dissent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But are these measures really going to be enough? Or are they just more administrative knob-twiddling, when the people feel in deadly peril?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France is committed to &#8220;destroying&#8221; the so-called Islamic State group after Friday&#8217;s deadly attacks, President Francois Hollande has said. He said he would table a bill to extend the state of emergency declared after the attacks for three months and would suggest changes to the constitution. France&#8217;s military campaign against IS in Iraq and Syria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":166865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-167364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}