French probation plan for citizens

Report of a FT interview with Claude Guéant, chief of staff to Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, September 2010.

He said that naturalised citizens in France could be put on probation as part of the government’s security and immigration crackdown which has raised tensions between Paris, the European Commission and the German government.

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