Paris attack victims to sue French state over surveillance lapses - lawyer


  • World
  • Wednesday, 13 Jul 2016

People mourn in front of the screened-off facade of the Bataclan Cafe adjoining the concert hall, one of the sites of the deadly attacks in Paris, France, November 26, 2015 a day before a ceremony to pay tribute to the 130 victims. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

PARIS/NIMES (Reuters) - Victims of last November's Islamic State assault on Paris plan to sue the French state for failing to avert a killing spree by militants who had drawn scrutiny from police and intelligence services, a lawyer for the group said on Tuesday.

Earlier in the day a court in a separate case found the French state partly at fault over the killing of a French soldier in 2012 by Mohamed Merah, a militant whose activities had also been tracked for some time by police and security services. Merah was killed in a shootout with police that year.

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