The National Centre for Counter Terrorism is an agency charged with monitoring and preventing terrorism in France. It was created by President

Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. ''Ex officio'', he is also one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra. Prior to his presidency, Macron served as Minister of Econ ...

on 7 June 2017, the day following the

2017 Notre Dame attack On 6 June 2017, at around 16:00 CET, French police shot a man who attacked a police officer with a hammer outside Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral on the Île de la Cité, located in the centre of Paris. The man injured the officer with the hammer, ...

, in response to a series of Islamist terrorist attacks in France. The new Centre will report directly to the President and is headed by

Laurent Nuñez Laurent Nuñez-Belda (born 19 February 1964) is a French civil servant and independent politician who has been serving as Head of the National Center of Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism (CNRLT) since 2020. From 2018 until 2020, he was as Secr ...

, who succeeded

Pierre de Bousquet de Florian Pierre de Bousquet de Florian was the head of the French National Centre for Counter Terrorism, an agency charged with monitoring and preventing terrorism in France, from the agency's establishment in 2017 to before being succeeded by Laurent Nuñ ...

in 2020 in the role. The Centre will be located in the presidential Elysee palace and will operate 24-hours a day, focusing on citizens of France who have joined

ISIS Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kin ...

in Syria and Iraq and on how to counter Islamic radicalization and

jihadist Jihadism is a neologism which is used in reference to "militant Islamic movements that are perceived as existentially threatening to the West" and "rooted in political Islam."Compare: Appearing earlier in the Pakistani and Indian media, Wes ...

distribution of information on how to carry out terror attacks. The Centre will be in a position like that of the Joint Intelligence Committee in the United Kingdom and the office of the

Director of National Intelligence The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a senior, cabinet-level United States government official, required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Co ...

in the United States.

References

{{reflist French intelligence agencies Intelligence analysis agencies Counterterrorism intelligence

See also

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