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           French Parliamentary Panel Calls for Intelligence Reforms

   by VOA News

   A French parliamentary inquiry into last year's deadly terror attacks
   in Paris is calling for the creation of a single national
   anti-terrorism agency.

   The suggested overhaul of the nation's intelligence services is one of
   just more than three dozen recommendations made by the commission in a
   report released Tuesday.

   The inquiry found the intelligence services lost track of Said Kouachi
   just months before he and his brother Cherif carried out the January 7
   attack on the offices of the weekly Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine
   that left 12 people dead.

   Georges Fenech, the head of the commission that conducted the inquiry,
   says France's intelligence chiefs admitted during the inquiry that the
   attack on Charlie Hebdo, and the coordinated attacks on the Bataclan
   concert hall, a sports stadium and several bars and restaurants 10
   months later, represented a "global intelligence failure. "

   A total of 147 people were killed in the two attacks.

   The commission also questioned whether the state of emergency imposed
   after the November attacks, and the subsequent deployment of troops to
   protect schools, synagogues and department stores across France, has
   had any real effect on the country's security situation.

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