"We have changed our world with an increasingly difficult to detect threat. The expert who made this observation after the Romans-sur-Isère attack is a veteran of the fight against terrorism. The April 5 attack, with the three that preceded it (in Lyon, May 24, 2019, in Paris, October 3 at the police headquarters, and in Villejuif, January 3), poses a major problem: how to detect what seems undetectable?
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These attacks were committed by individuals with no operational ties to an organization. Completely unknown to the anti-terrorist services and therefore absent from the famous "S files" or the radicalized file. If we must remain cautious about the killer of Romans, the Secretary of State for the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, said: " To our knowledge, he would have acted alone ". And Abdallah Ahmed Osman was well unknown to French and European specialized services.
Almost nothing in common
Animated by a common will to sow death in the name of Allah, what did these men have in common? Nothing or almost.
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