arabia this is from the official press agency of the country saying that a man was arrested after attempting to stop in fact did stop an officer a guard outside the french court said that in jeddah it really feels as if there is a lot going on this is breaking news but yes 2 further incidents following that attack in nice. ok thank you charlotte charlotte the bill to give air force in paris. ok we can talk now with john laughlin he's a lecturer in history at the university institute of in a tent in paris and joins us live now thanks for coming on jon. what do you make of these latest incidents that we've seen let's just start with the small innings incident how would you look at this in context of recent events in france. well i think like everybody i look at it with intense emotion and terrible foreboding only last night as your viewers know president mccall announced very draconian powers to crackdown on the coronavirus his announcement was on the one hand a statement of massive state power the deployment of massive state power of a kind which western europe has not seen since the war. i'm