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As a couple, with few qualifications, in their thirties… Who are the jihadists imprisoned in France?

4/7/2023, 4:27:52 PM


INFOGRAPHICS - An in-depth study draws up the typical profile of Islamists in detention. A surprising radioscopy of fanaticism.

He does not have the profile of a madman born with a knife between his teeth but the more banal profile of a modest Frenchman.

The Cahiers d'études pénitentiaires et de criminologie have just published “Who are the French jihadists?

Portraits of 350 people detained for acts of terrorism with a jihadist reference.

This is undoubtedly the most complete work ever carried out on the profile of the followers of this movement which has bloodied France and occupied our courts for ten years.

In a totally unprecedented approach, the prison administration opened its doors wide to two researchers, Xavier Crettiez, professor of political science at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and Romain Sèze, project manager at the Mission for the fight against violent radicalization (management of the prison administration).

They were able to go through the content of the 350 "

assessment reports of people imprisoned (accused and sentenced) for acts of jihadist terrorism

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