After the tragic attacks that occurred in France last month, France plans on taking action to create a safer environment by strengthening security.

To briefly recap, on Jan. 7 at 11:30 a.m., two armed, masked brothers named Chérif Kouachi and Saïd Kouachi broke into the offices of Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper. In total, they killed 12 employees and officers and wounded 11, according to LA Times.

A similar event took place on Jan. 9 when Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumediene, who have been connected to the brothers of the Charlie Hebdo attack, raided a kosher store near Paris’s Porte de Vincennes. This attack resulted in the deaths of 4 people. Coulibaly is also a suspect in the killing of a police woman Clarissa Jean­ Philippe, in the south of France the day before the attack.

France plans to take action by strengthening and enforcing security throughout the country by spreading an extra 15,000 police and troops across France.

“I think that they need to because when they were investigating the attacks, they learned it wasn’t an isolated incident,” said Ms. Carlson, a Social Studies teacher here at York. “They needed to provide a greater sense of security by looking into the people, investigating what they’re doing, and protect the nation that way. In terms of limiting freedom of movement, that I do have a problem with, because you run the risk of being so overprotective that people lose all freedom.”

France also plans on gathering intelligence not just from home, but also globally to combat terrorism. Including online, France is uniting with important Internet providers to combat terrorism and hatred.

“Terrorists are also using the Internet as a weapon of indoctrination, manipulation and confusion,” said Francois Hollande, the president of France. “The sources of terrorism cannot go unnamed.”

These actions taken by France has also inspired other countries to do similar acts of protection.

According to the Embassy of France in London, “It is becoming a matter of urgency for the French surveillance system to be extended to European level. France will propose a constructive approach to the European Parliament, whereby the effectiveness of the instrument is compatible with a high level of protection for travelers’ personal data.”

France also plans to reform prison by creating new sections for inmates deemed radicalized for isolation in order to quell the overcrowding of prisons.

Also, France is quite the popular tourist destination, so the measures taken was necessary to ensure the safety of tourists and to prevent excessive loss of profits from tourism. Despite the horrific attacks France had to endure, the country still managed to persevere by creating and enforcing better laws that may prevent such hateful attacks in the future.

“Unity is our weapon and we must show our determination to fight against anything that might divide us,” said Hollande. “Long live the republic, long live France.”