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France's Emmanuel Macron has ordered additional protection for critical infrastructure.
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Macron → order → infrastructure
The French president says the threat to Europe from Russia's hybrid warfare has "intensified".
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threat → say → warfare
He adds any attack from Moscow on French soil will not go unanswered.
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Emmanuel Macron says the threat posed by Russia's shadow operations is growing across Europe, as he orders measures to protect France's critical infrastructure from Russian "hybrid attacks".
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he → say → attacks
The French president also vowed that Russia's attacks on French soil would not go unanswered, speaking after talks with presidential hopefuls and party leaders ahead of the April-May election.
"The Russian hybrid threat against Europeans and against France has intensified,"Mr Macron said.
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The meeting with France's political leaders, held in the Elysee Palace's crisis room, was intended to brief attendees on confidential French intelligence assessments of the current security challenges.
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meeting → hold → challenges
Nicolas Lerner, head of France's foreign intelligence service DGSE, and Celine Berthon, head of France's domestic intelligence agency DGSI, attended.
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Lerner → attend → agency
Also present were more than a dozen presidential hopefuls and other senior politicians including centrists Edouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal as well as Jordan Bardella, head of the far-right National Rally party.
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hopefuls → include → party
The National Rally's presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who is leading in the polls, and hard-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon were absent.
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Since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Kyiv's European allies, including France, have raised the alarm about "hybrid attacks" linked to Russia.
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allies → include → Russia
The attacks have fallen below the threshold of open warfare, but have included drone flights near sensitive sites, airspace violations, and cyberattacks.
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attacks → fall → sites
'We are not intimidated'
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This month, Berlin blamed Moscow for an incident at Leipzig airport, which the European Union said bore all the hallmarks of "state-sponsored terrorism".
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Union → blame → terrorism
The drone episode underscored an apparent escalation in the tactics Russia is willing to employ on NATO soil.
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Russia → underscore → soil
Mr Macron said he had ordered "the government to prepare a plan to protect our critical infrastructure" and the "most sensitive" defence industry and technology sites against drone and cyberattacks.
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he → say → drone
He added that France's interior minister had met regional prefects to step up vigilance.
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Mr Macron said that despite the Russian threats, France would continue to support Ukraine and vowed that Paris would respond to Russia's shadow attacks.
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Paris → say → attacks
"This will not go unanswered," Mr Macron said, without elaborating.
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"The intention behind it is to intimidate us and to derail the effort to support the Ukrainians.
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intention → intimidate → Ukrainians
The consequence will be the opposite,"he said.
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"We are not intimidated, because we know that what is at stake today in Ukraine is our security."
Berthon, France's top domestic spy, made a rare appearance at a business forum in August, saying the Leipzig incident signalled French companies could also be targeted.
Earlier this month a train carrying 186 passengers came off the rails in the northwestern French region of Normandy, injuring 44 people.
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A rail fragment weighing around 300 kilograms was found on the tracks, officials said.
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officials → weigh → tracks
While some politicians and police sources raised the possibility of sabotage, French authorities stressed the need for caution.
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