FRANCE - President Nicolas Sarkozy said today that France would make it a
crime to consult Web sites that advocate terrorism or hate crimes and
would toughen a crackdown on people who went abroad for ideological
indoctrination.
"From now on, any person who habitually consults Web sites that
advocate terrorism or that call for hatred and violence will be
criminally punished," Sarkozy said in a televised address after police
shot dead an al Qaeda-inspired gunman who had killed seven people.
"France will not tolerate forced recruitment or ideological
indoctrination on its soil," Sarkozy said, adding that an enquiry would
be launched into whether prisons were being used to propagate extremism
in France.
He said authorities were investigating whether Mohamed Merah, a
23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin, acted alone in the shootings
of three Jewish children and four adults in southwest France.
Merah died today in a hail of bullets when he jumped from a window
after elite police commandos entered the apartment where he was holed up
following a siege of more than 30 hours.
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