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France mulls new paedophile curbs France announces paedophile curbs
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to hold talks with his cabinet ministers about measures to prevent paedophiles from re-offending. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced new measures to deal with repeat sex offenders in response to a paedophile scandal.
There has been outrage in France over a paedophile who allegedly raped a five-year-old boy weeks after being released from a long prison sentence. Mr Sarkozy said a secure hospital would be built to detain paedophiles.
The man told police that tablets of the anti-impotence drug, Viagra, found on him were prescribed by a prison doctor. In future, he added, offenders would not be released until doctors had decided they were no longer dangerous.
The man was found with the boy with the help of a new nationwide alert system. The moves follow an admission by a prison doctor that he prescribed Viagra to a serial child molester accused of raping a boy after his release.
Mr Sarkozy is meeting his prime minister and the justice, health and interior ministers. The doctor told police he had not been given access to the criminal records of the man, Francis Evrard.
The health ministry is investigating the claims of Francis Evrard, 61, that a prison doctor prescribed Viagra to him. Evrard, 61, was found with the five-year-old boy with the help of a new nationwide alert system.
Police discovered him with the five-year-old boy hours after he had been abducted, in a garage in the northern town of Roubaix on 15 August. The boy was abducted in a garage in the northern town of Roubaix on 15 August.
The government is expected to consider measures such as electronic tagging and hospital detention, says the BBC's Alasdair Sandford in Paris. Magistrates and health professionals complain that a lack of resources means medical treatment and monitoring procedures for released offenders are not carried out effectively.
But magistrates and health professionals complain that a lack of resources means medical treatment and monitoring procedures for released offenders are not carried out effectively, says our correspondent.