"The murder of Paty, professor and symbol of the Republic, is a declaration of war"

Gilles Kepel.F_Mantovani © Editions_Gallimard

Gilles Kepel (Paris, 1955) believes that both the attack on Thursday in Nice and the beheading two weeks ago of Samuel Paty, a history professor on the outskirts of Paris, validate his research: terrorist attacks are rarely committed by

and the religious impregnation of its authors is anything but secondary.

The French political scientist, one of the leading specialists in Islam, has been pointing out for decades that it is not about radicals who have embraced Islam, but that ...

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