{"id":34764,"date":"2017-05-24T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/macron-seeks-to-extend-state-of-emergency-to\/"},"modified":"2017-05-24T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:12:41","slug":"macron-seeks-to-extend-state-of-emergency-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/macron-seeks-to-extend-state-of-emergency-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron seeks to extend state of emergency to November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Emmanuel Macron also preparing new security measures and legislation having studied &#8216;new terrorist threat&#8217;}<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s new president is seeking to extend the country&#8217;s state of emergency until at least November 1, according to a statement from the president&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron also asked his government to prepare draft legislation to reinforce security measures permanently beyond the state of emergency, the announcement on Wednesday said.<\/p>\n<p>If approved by parliament, it would be the sixth such extension. Human rights groups have previously raised concerns over the emergency rule, arguing that it diminishes civil liberties. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes as Macron, who was elected in a May 7 vote, settles into office, and follows an attack in neighbouring Britain two days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a suicide bomber in the northern city of Manchester detonated his vest at a concert arena after a performance by the American pop star Ariana Grande, killing at least 23 people, including himself.<\/p>\n<p>France has been in a state of emergency, which gives sweeping powers to the police, since November 2015, when at least 130 people were killed in coordinated attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The country has suffered several attacks since then, including a truck-ramming assault that killed at least 86 people in Nice last year.<\/p>\n<p>Macron made the decision after a security meeting on Wednesday in which top officials &#8220;studied the implications of this new terrorist attack on measures of protection to ensure the security of our compatriots&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20277 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/39fe97dee31a4268a6b7615c80f46147_18.jpg\" alt=\"French President Emmanuel Macron, centre, is leading plans for more security measures \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Emmanuel Macron also preparing new security measures and legislation having studied &#8216;new terrorist threat&#8217;} France&#8217;s new president is seeking to extend the country&#8217;s state of emergency until at least November 1, according to a statement from the president&#8217;s office. Emmanuel Macron also asked his government to prepare draft legislation to reinforce security measures permanently beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34764"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34764"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}