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French customs ready to embrace Israeli-American intelligence software

French customs inspection checks at the port of Le Havre, 27 March 2017. © Yann Foreix/PhotoPQR/Le Parisien/MaxPPP

At a time when Paris is heralding the return of economic sovereignty, its customs authorities are about to purchase Israeli-American software to improve their intelligence capabilities. No French system can compete. [...]

Published on 23/01/2026 at 16:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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