Co-author of an information report published in June 2019, on radicalization in public services, Éric Diard was on Tuesday the guest of the "Talk Le Figaro ". The term of separatism used by the president, " it is semantics ", loose the deputy LR of Bouches-du-Rhône, preferring to use the terms of "religious communitarianism or withdrawal of identity" . As such, he emphasizes that if we are currently talking about "more precisely the Islamists" , religious communitarianism can just as easily address evangelists, another religion, "even a sect ", he adds. , ensuring the passage of vigilance of territorial information on the file of evangelism.
According to him, has the Head of State been too late to tackle the subject of separatism? " Yes! "Regrets the elected representative of Bouches-du-Rhône," at present, no recommendation has been retained, nor any decision taken, "he deplores. According to him, this work has aroused the interest of certain ministers "at the highest point" . This is why he and his co-author Éric Poulliat, LREM MP for Gironde, asked a month ago for a "revoyure clause" , which has remained unanswered at this stage. If he regrets the silence of the executive following the thirty-five recommendations put forward in the report, of which " some were simple ", Éric Diard has a fairly clear interpretation. "I think that when it comes to radicalization, communitarianism, we cannot do" at the same time "." Sure that the president is "embarrassed at the sidelines by his left wing" , he claims that certain measures on the other hand "pleased the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior" .
For him, radicalization in public services is a reality. The mission's conclusions clearly demonstrate an increase in communitarianism in the sports field "by the infiltration into certain clubs of radicalized people, particularly in shooting and combat sports". And, there is worse. " In the penitentiary, it is a drama! ". He points to a “preponderant Islamism in prisons” even affecting certain prison guards. For him, the phenomenon affects in France some 500 prisoners for terrorism plus common law prisoners who have radicalized in prison. According to the prison administration, there are around 900, according to the unions " double or even triple ", explains Diard. It is precisely these radicalized intramural prisoners who worry, the elected representative recalling that Coulibaly, Merah, Chekatt, Nemmouche radicalized in prison. " Most of the attacks come from these people," he insists.
The Minister of Justice confirmed on Monday the release of around 40 detainees convicted of jihadism in 2020 and more than sixty in 2021. The parliamentarian claims to have proposed the extension of the 2008 detention security law to the most radicalized detainees . This detention of security, he explains, would allow " a buffer zone " between liberty and detention. "We know very well that there are individuals who are going to be more dangerous when they leave prison than when they enter," says Diard. What about a deradicalization of these individuals? "It does not exist, the deradicalization was a failure" , testifies the elected official, adding not without fatalism: "We cannot de-radicalize a person against his will" .