French President Emmanuel Macron is vowing to lift a state of emergency that has been in place since 2015, but also to harden permanent security measures to fight Islamic extremism and other threats.
He insisted on the need to "guarantee full respect for individual liberties" amid concerns that new measures would allow police too many powers.
Speaking at a special parliamentary session Monday in Versailles, Macron promised to "restore the freedoms of the French" after nearly two years under a state of emergency. He promised to lift it in the autumn.
He promised tougher new measures to prevent any new attack "without pity ... without weakness."
He spoke two days after authorities charged a young man with plotting a possible attack against the president or minority groups.
