France to Create New National Guard
July 28th, 2016Via: The Local:
France will soon have its own National Guard the president announced on Thursday as he aims to boost security to protect the French population facing repeated terror attacks.
President François Hollande announced on Thursday that a new National Guard would be created from existing reserve forces.
The move comes after a spate of recent terror attacks, including the killing of a priest as he gave mass in Normandy on Tuesday and the horrendous Nice truck attack which left 84 dead.
Following the atrocity in Nice, Hollande had announced that thousands of reservists would be called up to boost the under-pressure security forces suffering from fatigue after 18 months of heightened alert and repeated attacks.
The government urged all able-bodied volunteers to come forward with the aim of boosting the current 28,000 reservists by 12,000.
