French President Emmanuel Macron has asked the authorities to thoroughly “comb” the files of radicalized people who are likely to be expelled from the country after revealing some shocking details about the family of the Arras attacker, reports AFP, citing Agerpres.

The head of state intends to make sure that there was no “lapse” in checking the procedures aimed at people on the so-called “S lists” of suspects who pose a potential threat to “state security”, the French presidency said. a press release

The announcement follows the death of a French teacher who was stabbed by a 20-year-old former radicalized Russian student at a secondary school in Arras on Friday. He was registered on the lists of suspects of radicalization in the school unit.

On Monday, a moment of silence will be observed in all educational institutions of France in memory of this teacher.

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Macron also wants his ministers to “embody an unforgiving state towards all those who harbor hatred and terrorist ideologies,” an aide told reporters.

In a circular, the interior ministry in Paris ordered all prefects in the country to assemble within 48 hours the departmental radicalization assessment teams created in 2014 to “review in detail” all “individual cases”, “especially those involving foreigners with unclear characteristics. situation,” the French president explained.

The aim is to “ensure that all radicalized individuals who are likely to be deported are removed from the country or speed up the procedures” and “re-check that there were no lapses and that the procedure was fully followed”.

The idea, in particular, is to see if it is possible to obtain consular permission in cases where it has not been possible until now, especially with regard to Russia, where dialogue on the subject, and therefore expulsions, have effectively stopped since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

It is known that the family of the attacker from Arras is radical

Although initial reports by the French press said the young man who carried out the attack in Arras was originally from Chechnya, authorities later clarified that he was born in another predominantly Muslim region of Russia in the Caucasus, the Republic of Ingushetia. .

Authorities also said the young man was briefly pursued by the Directorate-General for Internal Security (DGSI), but his father was expelled in 2018 for radicalization and his older brother was jailed for his part in the Elysee Palace assassination plot.

In 2014, the attacker’s family was subject to deportation proceedings, which were later cancelled.

In addition to the circular to prefects on radicalized persons, the Ministry of the Interior is calling for a review of “a specialized approach for young people from the Caucasus aged 16 to 25”.

The attacker in Arras, like the one who killed and beheaded Professor Samuel Paty near Paris 3 years ago, comes from this Russian region.