A French policeman stands guard outside the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris on Oct. 30, 2020, one day after a knife attack in a church in Nice. (Photo: AFP-Yonhap News)
Police are being deployed in France to protect places of worship and schools following two attacks within two weeks by Islamist militants.
President Emanuel Macron has been to the southern city of Nice where a young Tunisian man is accused of killing three people in a church on Thursday.
The BBC's Lucy Williamson reports from Nice.
[Reporter]
President Macron has said this is once again a matter of defending French values, secular values, freedom of expression, freedom of belief.
He is chairing a defense council this morning to look into the security implications of this.
He's promised new measures will come out of that.
But of course, the government here is already very active in trying to bring in new proposals, new plans to clamp down on what they say is dangerous Islamist rhetoric and terrorist funding here in France.
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