Gilles Clavreul is cofounder of Printemps republican and was interministerial delegate for the fight against racism and anti-Semitism from 2015 to 2017. Prefect, he made himself available for the public service. He recently published
L'Etat After or How to Reinvent a French Passion
(Éditions de l'Observatoire).
This text was originally published on his Facebook page this Thursday morning.
The Islamist attack perpetrated in Nice this morning is a continuation of the two previous attacks, the one which cost Samuel Paty the life less than two weeks ago and the one committed in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo.
Subject to what we will learn in the coming hours about the profile of the assailant from Nice, the logic of the so-called “third generation” jihad is once again respected: a context conducive to the exasperation of anger among radicalized Muslims (Charlie's trial, Erdogan's nationalist rantings, and now the Islamist movement's reaction to the measures taken by the government ...);
an Al-Qaeda press release formulating explicit threats against France, in particular against Charlie Hebdo and against the President of the Republic;
a passage to the act according to the means at hand, but which each time reaches a precise target.
The attack on a church is reminiscent of that of Saint-Étienne du Rouvray.
The attack on a church is reminiscent of that of Saint-Étienne du Rouvray.
The France hated by the jihadists is not only that of freedom of expression;
it is also that of the “crusaders”, who came to defile the land of Islam in the name of a false “associationist” religion.
Thus this attack gives satisfaction to the most radical of the various world Islamist currents.
Conversely, it also augurs well for a movement of ostensible compassion on the part of institutional Islamists, as had already happened in Saint-Étienne du Rouvray, but also, in a different context, during the undifferentiated attacks. November 13, 2015 and especially Nice on July 14, 2016, where many Muslims were killed.
We remember that the French Frériste sensibility loudly condemned these acts, which it has much more trouble to do when it comes to Charlie Hebdo.
We therefore risk entering a new phase of scrambling of messages and doubts about the real intentions of certain interlocutors.
It will therefore be necessary more than ever to demonstrate clarity and consistency: the entire Islamist continuum is engaged in an enterprise of destabilization and weakening of France, and it is therefore against all of its components, which differ only in the means and not in the goals, that it is necessary to act.
We have it for a very long time.
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