Bid to unite Paris behind terror law

France’s government, smarting from accusations that it did not do enough to avert last week’s deadly truck attack in Nice, has urged lawmakers to extend a period of emergency rule that gives police greater search-and-arrest powers.

Under fire from opposition politicians and jeered by crowds at a remembrance ceremony on Monday, prime minister Manuel Valls wants lawmakers to back a three-month rollover of the emergency regime imposed after the Bataclan attack last November.

The move comes as the Promenade des Anglais along the seafront of the Riviera city reopened after last week’s attack in which Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a truck into crowds of Bastille Day revellers, killing 84, before being shot dead.