France

A debate over surveillance cameras is raging in Paris, where police are in the process of establishing a widespread system of "video protection". Is it a necessary security measure or a needless infringement of civil liberties?

France's Interior Minister Claude Guéant has reportedly said the country will take steps to tighten security in all of its 58 nuclear power plants, after Greenpeace activists highlighted the system's weaknesses by infiltrating two sites last month.

French authorities will afford closer protection to Syrian opposition members, including the opposition council’s Paris-based leader Burhan Ghalioun, the Interior Minister Claude Gueant (photo) announced Friday.

World leaders from the US, EU, UN, and Arab League have begun crisis talks in Paris. French officials said that they expect air strikes against Libyan government forces to start within hours of the meeting.

Undercover journalists filming a special report for a French television channel successfully carried a 9-mm semi-automatic pistol onto two separate internal flights, reigniting the debate about security in France's airports.

French police said on Tuesday that they had arrested 12 people in counter-terrorism raids that came as Western security officials warned al Qaeda may be planning Mumbai-style attacks in major European cities.

French authorities say no explosives have been found after the capital’s Saint Lazare train station had to be evacuated following an anonymous phone call to police concerning a bomb alert.

A spokesman for the French nuclear giant Areva has acknowledged that internal security lapses helped kidnappers abduct seven workers last week, but said its security policy was based on requirements of the Niger government.

Around 2,000 people were evacuated from the Eiffel Tower and the surrounding Champ de Mars park on Tuesday evening following a bomb alert that turned out to be a false alarm, Paris police headquarters said.

The Czech Republic's foreign minister has described France's expulsion of Roma migrants as "contrary to the spirit of European Union rules", saying he suspects "racist viewpoints" underlie the policy.