Christian Gravel is a prefect at the interministerial committee for the prevention of delinquency, radicalization and sectarian excesses (CIPDR) He is close to former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, a supporter of an offensive secularism. The prevention of radicalization has long been a theme he has studied.
Gravel was heard by the ad hoc Senate Commission of Inquiry, which had pinned him for not having a document sent relating to the projects selected for the allocation of these grants.