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Extremists galvanized by the virus

2020-05-07T18:03:20.634Z


The intelligence services fear a return to the street of the ultra-left, reinforced by "yellow vests".


The Covid-19 inspires the extremists and the intelligence services are worried about the deconfinement of their deadly ideas. Islamist terrorism remains the first concern. A police source notes, for the time being, " the absence of a specific threat linked to post-containment ". But underlines that in the areas of jihad, the madmen of God benefit from the crisis with, in Iraq, 151 attacks in April and 101 in March against 88 in January. The two attacks in France, the arrests of terrorists ready to take action in Germany, Denmark and Spain, finally demonstrate that the threat is still as strong.

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Islamists are not the only ones to come forward, however. " On the internet, notes an expert, we are witnessing, regardless of the ideology involved, a surge of hatred, an assertion of wanting to change everything and a certainty" that we will be stronger "after confinement. "On the left-hand side, the intelligence services are concerned about a medium-term risk: the return

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Source: lefigaro

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