Macron Suggests Russia “Expand Cooperation” in Fight Against Terrorism

French President Emmanuel Macron says he has offered Russia to “expand cooperation” in the fight against terrorism. As Macron specified when he recently visited French Guiana, the offer was made “taking into account the information available to our services and elements that could be useful to the Russians.” If the Paris proposal is accepted by the Kremlin, “contacts will initially develop at the technical and ministerial level,” the French president said, without ruling out possible contacts with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

France has been repeatedly targeted by jihadists in the past, from the attack on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, to the Bataclan theater massacre on November 13 of the same year. The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), which Western sources say is responsible for the massacre at the Crocus City Concert Hall, has carried out “several terrorist attacks on French territory,” said Macron, according to whom, even before the Moscow massacre, the Vigipirate anti-terrorism plan had been raised to the highest level of alert “as a precautionary measure” given the jihadist movement’s “ramifications and intentions.”