Intelligence/ French government's first priority is to
increase the number of employees in the intelligence services
The French government
is to hire more staff to strengthen its intelligence services, Prime
Minister Manuel Valls has said.
Valls told a press
conference at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on Wednesday that the
government will hire 2,680 staff and spend €425 million ($490
million) on counter-terrorism over three years following the attacks in Paris
two weeks ago in which 17 people were killed.
He
said: "Terrorism has struck our soil and the threat of terrorism
remains high."
The announcement
followed a meeting of ministers at the Elysee presidential palace in
the French capital on Wednesday.
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