Tough Stuff: France's Anti-Terror Law
① It is an election promise kept, though not in the way human-rights activists had hoped.
② As a presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said the temporary use of a state of emergency, imposed after terrorists killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015, should end "as soon as...possible".
③ Today the oft-renewed decree expires, at last.
④ In its place France gets a new anti-terrorism law, signed on Monday by President Macron after parliamentarians overwhelmingly passed it.
⑤ It permanently strengthens powers of police and officials to investigate people suspected of terrorism.
⑥ Police get more freedom to search property or individuals, for example at railway stations or airports; officials can order suspects confined to their home towns; and places of worship that host extremist preachers can be closed more easily.
⑦ Rights activists warn that valuable legal protections for individuals are being eroded.
⑧ But opinion polls suggest Mr Macron's tougher approach is popular.
▍生詞好句
tough /t?f/: adj. 強硬的；嚴厲的；棘手的；鐵石心腸的
terror /?t?r?/: n. (極度的) 恐懼感
terror attack: 恐怖襲擊
decree /d??kri?/: n. 法令
parliamentarian /?pɑ?l?m?n?t??r??n/ /?pɑ?l?m(?)n?t??r??n/: n. 議員
suspect sb. of sth. /s??sp?kt/: 懷疑某人有……的嫌疑
suspect /?s?sp?kt/: n. 嫌疑人
confine /k?n?f??n/: vt. 限制
erode /??r??d/: vt. 侵蝕
