President Emmanuel Macron promised on Thursday that France would do everything to avoid a repeat of the jihadist attacks in Paris 10 years ago that took the lives of 130 people.
“Everything will be done to prevent any new attack and to ruthlessly punish those who would dare to attempt it,” he said.
Salah Abdeslam, 36, the only surviving member of the ten-person jihadist cell responsible for the assaults, is incarcerated for life.
The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the other nine attackers either blew themselves up or were slain by police.
The last remnants of the IS proto-state that spanned portions of Syria and Iraq and served as the inspiration for the Paris attacks were eliminated in 2019 by US-backed forces.
However, Macron warned of another form of jihadism that he called “internal, insidious, less detectable, and less predictable.”
“No one can guarantee the end of attacks, but we can guarantee that for those who take up arms against France, the response will be uncompromising,” he said.
He said that France would continue to track jihadists at home and abroad.
“Eighty-five attacks have been foiled in 10 years, including six this year,” he added.
