MOSCOW (Sputnik) — RATP plans to employ armed plainclothes agents withing a few weeks, whereas SNCF did not provide a definite date, citing the need to train agents first, according to the French newspaper Le Parisien.
"The following text accounts for… major provisions: the exemption from the uniform of the internal security officers and the authorization for carrying a weapon when in civil dress," the decree said.
In the past year, France saw a number of deadly terrorist attacks, with the most deadly of them – the November attacks in Paris – claiming 130 lives. Following the November attacks, a state of emergency was declared in the country.