France’s first center for deradicalization is set to close after less than a year, the government announced on Friday. The Pontourney center in central France was inaugurated in September 2016 with the aim of working with young people to convince them to turn their backs on extremism. Officially labeled a center for “Reintegration and Citizenship”, it was targeted at 18-30-year-olds who had been exposed to radical ideologies, but the Interior Ministry said on Friday that “the experiment has not been conclusive” and that the center would be permanently closed. The center had capacity for up to 25 people, who were...