"It is necessary to create a special anti-terrorism court…I also propose to create a national prosecutor's anti-terrorism office," Sarkozy told Le Journal du Dimanche weekly newspaper in a Sunday interview.
Judges specializing in counter-terrorism are needed to deal with the terrorist threat effectively, he added, stressing that there is no more room for legal softness in dealing with the problem and that the current French government could have avoided the deadly July attack in the city of Nice by toughening the legal system.
The presidential candidate also called for the creation of detention centers for radicalized French citizens suspected of terrorist links and found to frequent Islamist websites.
"Every French citizen suspected of terrorist links due to frequently visiting jihadist websites, showing radicalized behavior or having close relations with radicalized people, must be preemptively placed in a detention center," he said.
Earlier in September, a car with five gas and three diesel bottles was discovered near the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. On Thursday, police arrested three "radicalized" women, suspected of intention to explode the car, following an anti-terrorist operation in the department of Essonne in the Ile-de-France region.
On November 13, Islamic terrorists conducted a series of coordinated attacks in Paris, killing 130 people and injuring over 360. The IS group, outlawed in Russia and many other countries, claimed responsibility for the attack.
