France stepping up border security after Brussels attack
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin holds a press conference following a security council meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, 16 Oct 2023.
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PUBLISHED ONOctober 17, 2023 7:05 AM
PARIS — France is stepping up security at the Belgian border, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Tuesday (Oct 17) after the killing of two people by an assailant in Brussels the night before.
"We don't have information according to which he [the attacker] could be heading to France", Darmanin told RTL radio but France will as a precaution "double the number of security agents at the border".
Belgium was searching on Tuesday for a gunman who killed two Swedish citizens and wounded a third person on Monday in what the Belgian prime minister called a brutal terrorist attack that raised the terror threat level in Brussels to the maximum.
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