ФРАНЦУСКИ ОДГОВОР НА ИЗАЗОВЕ ГЛОБАЛНОГ ТЕРОРИЗМА – ИСТОРИЈА И САВРЕМЕНОСТ
FRENCH RESPONSE TO THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL TERRORISM – HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY SITUATION

Summary/Abstract: Terrorist attacks by radical Islamists on the editorial staff of the satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ and other targets, in which in the early 2015 seventeen people got killed, aroused the need for a detailed and comprehensive study and critical examination of models of combating this form of political violence in France, primarily in terms of legal norms regulating the anti-terrorist activity, but also in terms of organizational and professional capacities of special services in charge of preventive and repressive battle against terrorism. In this context, it is worth noting that the foundations of today’s system for combating terrorism were set by the Law of 1986 which, among other things, centralized all judicial proceedings pertaining to terrorism. This filled the void created by abolishing the Special Court for State Security (Le Cour de Surete de l`Etat), which from its establishing in 1963 to its closure in 1981 dealt with prosecution of terrorist offences. Present-day terrorist attacks, such as the one on ‘Charlie Hebdo’, show some new features. The attacks are conducted by small groups or by individuals, so called ‘lone wolves’, following minimal preparation in absolute secrecy and have deadly effects. This makes the job of security services much more difficult and is bound to result in legislative changes in France, which will aim to increase the efficiency of anti- terrorist activities of special services. In order to overcome the shortcomings of the present system, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls in his first address to the Parliament after the attack in January 2015, announced new measures in this, as he said ‘war’ his country leads against terrorism. In addition, he promised that by the end of this year, French prisons will be equipped with special isolation rooms for Islamist extremists, by September France will be ready to join EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) and in the course of this year the authorities will introduce surveillance of flights by persons suspected of criminal activities.

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