[HIGHLIGHTS] Why are we comparing the Moscow attack to a “Russian Bataclan”? Some elements of response with Baudrillard

Pierre Azou is a doctoral student in French studies at Princeton University, in the United States. He is preparing a thesis on the figure of the terrorist in contemporary novels and essays.

Listen to the club Le Club Le Figaro Idées with Eugénie Bastié “A Russian Bataclan”  : the analogy, if not the formula itself, has clearly established itself. From the little variation on the attacks on the West, terror can only be repeated indefinitely, says Pierre Azou.