Questions for French security services after it emerges three major intelligence failures

[CJCRANE]

Questions for French security services after it emerges three major intelligence failures may have let the killers get through

*French official admitted 'failure of intelligence' as vital clues were missed
*Heavily armed suspect was stopped but anti-terror chiefs were not alerted
*One attacker was Parisian and had been on terror watch for five years
*Two gunmen also sneaked into Europe by posing as refugees from Syria


Vital clues were missed that could have averted the Paris atrocities, it was feared last night as it was revealed that:

* A heavily armed suspect was stopped on his way to the French capital more than a week ago but German police who uncovered an arsenal of weapons in his car did not tell anti-terror chiefs.
* At least one of the terrorists was a Parisian who had been on a terror watch list for five years, but was not being monitored closely enough to be stopped before he took part in the murderous attack.
* Greek authorities believe that two of the gunmen sneaked into Europe posing as a refugee from Syria – heightening fears that not enough security checks are being carried out on migrants.

As details of the killers’ identities began to emerge yesterday, Corinne Narassiguin, spokeswoman for France’s ruling Socialist Party, admitted: ‘Obviously there was a failure of intelligence.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3318859/Questions-French-security-services-emerges-three-major-intelligence-failures-let-killers-through.html

[MrScorpio]

1. The DM doing what it does best, raising blood pressures through the roof nt

[CJCRANE]

2. It's just a factual report not an op-ed.

The DM is mainly a news aggregator, they take a lot of their stories straight from the wires.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Cause for watching someone isn't the same as

cause for arresting someone...

Nevermind the fact that French intelligence supposedly had 5,000 suspects on a watch list for Paris alone... That's more than any agency can track...

[BeyondGeography]

3. Sarkozy is saying basically the same things

Hollande is up for reelection in 2017 and this will be a central issue. He's being predictably lambasted by the Right for not sufficiently tightening security post-Charlie Hebdo. This is not a DM phenomenon.

http://fressoz.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/11/14/apres-les-attentats-les-faucons-menent-la-danse/