The group of ministers meeting in Paris also called for increased checks on passengers and baggage at major train stations and for the EU Commission to tighten gun laws, they said in a joint statement read by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
Ayoub El Khazzani, a Moroccan national,had boarded a high-speed train in Brussels on August 21, Friday armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and 270 rounds of ammunition, as well as a Luger pistol, a bottle of petrol and a box-cutter, said Paris prosecutor Francois Molins about last week's high-speed train attack.The 25-year-old walked out of a toilet cubicle armed and topless before being wrestled to the floor and subdued by two young American off-duty servicemen, their friend and a 62-year-old British consultant who have since been given France's top honour, the Legion d'Honneur.A Franco-American man was shot and injured in the attack, which Molins described as "targeted and premeditated".