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A woman places a flower at the spot of a shooting on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris on Friday.

Paris - Leading candidates clashing over how to keep citizens safe

By Reuters

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Published: Fri 21 Apr 2017, 11:31 PM

Last updated: Sat 22 Apr 2017, 1:40 AM

The killing of a policeman by a suspected radical pushed national security to the top of the French political agenda on Friday, two days before the presidential election, with leading candidates clashing over how to keep citizens safe.
With the first round of voting in the two-stage election to take place on Sunday, far-right leader Marine Le Pen, an anti-EU politician who wants to ditch the euro, seized on the Paris shooting to push her policies on national security.
Le Pen - narrowly trailing frontrunner Emmanuel Macron in opinion polls - said she would take steps to beat "terrorism" if elected, including introducing tougher immigration and border controls.
Macron, a former economy minister in the government that Le Pen has criticised repeatedly for its security record, said the solutions were not as simple as she suggested.
The centrist candidate, a political novice compared with his opponents, said there "no such thing as zero risk" and anyone who said otherwise was irresponsible.


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