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Jeannette Bougrab pleads for "regaining digital sovereignty"

2020-10-20T18:52:07.670Z


The role of social networks in the assassination of Samuel Paty is under investigation. The former minister denounces a general disempowerment.


"

Today

,

we must admit the idea of ​​living daily with a terrorist threat

", admitted Tuesday Jeannette Bougrab on the set of "Talk Le Figaro".

However, she wants to be unresigned in the face of the enemy.

Following the terrible attack in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, she does not hesitate to recall the heavy toll of terrorism in France since 2012:

“298 dead, how many more are needed?” She

thunders, sweeping aside the debates and the declarations of successive governments.

She is now awaiting action.

"We hit the police, including agents in their homes, we hit priests, students, pupils, young people at concerts or on the sidewalk cafes, citizens who were going to see the fireworks in Nice

...

What more do you need? ”

Asks the one who campaigns for secularism.

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Convinced that there are methods that work in matters of counterterrorism, Jeannette Bougrab invites in this capacity, to "be

inspired

" by Israel, an entire society which according to her

, "is prepared on a daily basis to thwart acts. terrorists ”.

At the heart of the fight against Islamism, social networks will have to take their part in the abominable death of Samuel Paty.

Messages contesting the history teacher's teaching will have contributed, to an extent that remains to be determined, to his assassination.

Are we going to have to make the platforms that relay these messages accountable?

"It's obvious,"

says the former president of the Halde.

“We must regain digital sovereignty,” she

insists.

On this occasion, tired of the defeatist speech relating to the Gafa and their omnipotence, Jeannette Bougrab denounces a general disempowerment.

Fighting against the giants,

"it's not impossible"

according to the essayist who, in terms of showdown with the digital giants, points to the effectiveness of other countries, certainly

"which are not democracies or States of law ”

but

“ manage to cut the flow ”.

Recalling the lack of collaboration of Twitter or Facebook with the FBI, she also emphasizes that Donald Trump

"has already threatened these giants".

Certain that the only solution,

“is to force them,”

Jeannette Bougrab says she is convinced that the change will be driven by the United States which,

“when they decide, will stop.” “It is no longer acceptable, we has the means to do it ”,

plague the former minister denouncing the years of laissez-faire, on the left as on the right, and the time lost in the fight against Islamism.

For the moment,

"that the government do its job"

with the legislative arsenal at its disposal:

"to expel people who are a threat, for those who have dual nationality, there is the forfeiture of nationality which is possible" .

She also adds that she does not understand why

“it takes a long time to close mosques whose imams advocate anti-Semitic and misogynistic remarks.” “It is not for lack of alerting,”

adds the activist.

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In her new book

Un silence de mort - The dirty forgotten war of Yemen

, published by Éditions du Cerf, Jeannette Bougrab unveils another drama that has been overlooked, that of an

“infamous and unjust war (…) which will lead to the worst”. “When we have been in Yemen, we cannot be indifferent to what is happening,”

points out the author.

She denounces the general indifference in the face of the destruction of

"one of the most beautiful countries",

even though France

"is on the verge of being prosecuted for complicity in a war crime"

in the same way as the United States. United and the United Kingdom.

Yet indefatigable in the battles that are her own, the former minister today ensures that she no longer wants to play politics.

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Source: lefigaro

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