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Prefects and police officers explain their difficulties in the fight against Islamism

2020-10-21T18:46:14.241Z


Premature releases of detainees, overly restricted security measures, hindrance of several source countries to expulsions… The problems mentioned in Beauvau are legion.


“I find that we have all the legal means.

I don't see what we could add to the multiple successive layers. ”

Marc Trévidic, former antiterrorist judge, now president of the Assises in Versailles, exposes, without make-up, what many police officers think: it is not really the criminal laws that present flaws in the face of radical Islamism, especially since their reinforcement after the attacks of 2012 and 2015, but rather the application that can be made of it.

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Administrative tools, on the other hand, seem dull, in their eyes, and too often handled softly.

"Many decisions of the administrative justice are pronounced by authorities who live in their ivory tower"

, cowardly, severe, a commissioner of the judicial police.

The public actor acts as best he can, through legal tools that he uses, in a way, to put an end, at least temporarily, to certain situations.

The prefects have their own vision of the difficulties.

"There is what is pronounced through the penal code and which can be discussed, but the work of undermining radical Islam often goes beyond the scope of the offense"

, exposes a great

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Source: lefigaro

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