Paris - 5 July 2016 // SOUNDBITE (French) Georges Fenech, head of the special parliamentary commission investigating the Paris 2015 attacks: “Our intelligence services have failed. I say it very clearly. Nobody can pretend otherwise. In the report by Mr Pietrasanta, you’ll see that we go through the cases of each terrorist in a very factual manner. All, I say all of them, the attackers of the Bataclan, those of Charlie-Hebdo, those of the Hyper-Kosher, Amedy Coulibaly and the others, were all on the radar of our services.” // SOUNDBITE (French) Georges Fenech, head of the special parliamentary commission investigating the Paris 2015 attacks: “What the author of the report is suggesting is absolutely revolutionary, and I completely associate myself with it, to create a real agency to fight against terrorism as the Americans did after 9/11. We visited the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC). We are convinced of the necessity to create the equivalent of what the British also do with the MI5, an agency at the highest level of the state, with (financial) means. The American NCTC has 1,200 agents. Our co-ordinator, besides the President of the Republic, is 8 agents.” // SOUNDBITE (French) Sebastien Pietrasanta, author of the report: “On the (European) Community level, the commission has noticed a lot of gaps. Clearly, Europe is not up to the task in the fight against terrorism even if some progress has been made in the last few months. One wonders about the capacity of Europe to fight efficiently against terrorism. I propose an increased participation of the Europe members in Europol, and a better management of the SIS2 computerised file (Schengen Information System).” // SOUNDBITE (French) Georges Fenech, head of the special parliamentary commission investigating the Paris 2015 attacks: “We must raise the bar very high in the fight against international terrorism. We are facing terrorists that are very well war-trained in all the technologies, very well trained in combat, in the use of weapons, trained. There are many former soldiers from the Iraqi army in Daesh (Islamic State group) troops. We are not facing petty criminals, if I may say it like that.”