France must tackle 'social and ethnic apartheid' - PM


Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers a speech during a session at the National Assembly in Paris January 13, 2015 to pay respects to the victims of last week's Islamist militant attacks. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

PARIS (Reuters) - Deadly shootings by homegrown Islamists have cast a light on France's "geographical, social and ethnic apartheid", Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday in one of the starkest indictments of French society by a government figure.

The Jan. 7-9 attacks on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris have plunged France into a soul- searching debate to assess how the three gunmen were radicalised and how to prevent a repeat of violence that claimed 17 victims.

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