Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say

Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by RockyMcNuts on Friday November 13, 2015 @08:56PM (#10563996)

I don't think they closed their borders. They invoked the Schengen protocol for re-instituting border controls. Under Schengen driving from France to Italy or Germany is like driving from Texas to Louisiana. But there is a clause allowing re-instituting border controls under certain conditions, including a national security emergency.

[edit: source France24; http://mashable.com/2015/11/13/france-border-airlines-flight... . Hollande did refer to 'fermeture des frontières' which is confusing https://twitter.com/Elysee/status/665314066106159104 ]

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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by 001sky on Friday November 13, 2015 @10:11PM (#10564248)

"Live updates: At least 100 dead, multiple sites attacked, France's borders closed"

--LA Times Headline

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Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say by tajen on Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:50AM (#10565005)

This was corrected by the President's office, clarifying "closing the borders" as "restoring border controls". As a side note, during Shengen, border police still exists but is allowed to place controls wherever they want. It's not clear to my why controls at the borders is more efficient than intense, random in-land controls.

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