The French National assembly is on Tuesday (5 May) set to vote on an anti-terrorist law that would give sweeping powers to secret services to monitor suspected threats to public order and detect future terrorists.
The legislation should be definitively adopted after another vote in the Senate before summer.
It is largely supported by the governing Socialist party as well as by the right-wing opposition.
It has been dubbed a ‘French Big Brother’ by opponents who argue it inf...
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