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Darmanin: "The question is not whether there will be an attack but when"

2020-10-20T20:54:50.827Z


Asked about the risk of a new attack in France, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin argued Tuesday evening on BFMTV that "the question is not whether there will be an attack, but when". Guest of the show "Face à BFM" devoted to the savage assassination of Samuel Paty, Gérald Darmanin was questioned on the hypothesis according to which the trial of the attacks of January 2015 against Charl


Asked about the risk of a new attack in France, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin argued Tuesday evening on BFMTV that

"the question is not whether there will be an attack, but when".

Guest of the show "Face à BFM" devoted to the savage assassination of Samuel Paty, Gérald Darmanin was questioned on the hypothesis according to which the trial of the attacks of January 2015 against Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher, which is currently being held in Paris, would have revived the risk of an attack.

"Nothing would have been worse than not having this trial,"

he said replied.

Read also: Faced with separatism, Gérald Darmanin launches the response

"The attacks are carried out in an unpredictable way"

, he stressed, recalling that the attack with a chopper, three weeks ago in front of the former premises of the satirical weekly, had been committed by a Pakistani who did not was not known to services.

Regarding the assassination of Samuel Paty on Friday, Gérald Darmanin ruled that

"for the first time",

"political Islam (had) led directly to an attack".

“When we put Charlie Hebdo on trial, when we republish the cartoons (of Mohammed), yes, people do not accept it (...).

We are at war, we must accept that there may be attacks, ”

he said.

“The question is not whether there is going to be an attack, but when,”

he insisted, stressing the increase in the resources allocated to the security forces since the start of the five-year term.

The minister argued that we were in the

“4th generation”

of

“Islamist terrorists”

, after Khaled Kelkal in 1995,

“the Twin Towers attack”

in 2001, the 2015 attacks and

“here we are. to the firsts of a new series ”.

"There, it is obviously an attack which is not remotely controlled from abroad"

, he continued, adding:

"Between terrorism and nothing, there is separatism".

A bill strengthening secularism and the fight against separatism must be examined on December 9 by the Council of Ministers.

Asked about the expulsion of radicalized foreigners and in particular those of Chechens, the minister announced that he had asked to meet his Russian counterpart "this weekend" to discuss this subject.

This movement is not yet definitively stopped, he said.

Samuel Paty's assassin, Abdullakh Anzoro, was an 18-year-old refugee of Chechen origin.

Source: lefigaro

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