The lower house of the French parliament has strongly backed a tough new anti-terrorism bill enabling greater use of video surveillance.
The bill would allow potential targets, including places of worship, to install cameras and police to hold terror suspects for up to six days, from four.
Compare what seems 'tough' in France - 6 days to hold suspects without charge - to the UK - Blair wanted 90, and the compromise was 28 days, which made Blair say "the next terrorist bomb will be your fault".
The new bill would allow potential targets - including public transport, places of worship and shops - to install surveillance cameras for the first time.
Thanks to strict privacy laws, there are just 60,000 video cameras in public places in France, compared with more than
four million in Britain, our correspondent reports.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4482658.stm
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