Wednesday, July 20, 2016

French Parliament extends state of emergency for six months

The French Parliament has voted to extend the state of emergency for six months following last week's deadly attack in Nice.
In place since the Paris attacks in November, the state of emergency gives police enhanced powers to carry out house searches without a warrant and detain people.  
Our Europe correspondent Elena Casas reports.

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