LE FIGARO.
- According to you, more than France, all of Western Europe is threatened by radical Islam.
Why this analysis?
Hugo MICHERON.
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Jihadism is built in territories, in geography, and in time.
We must consider that there is a history of jihadism on the scale of North-West Europe.
This had been revealed with the advent of Daesh in 2014, since at that time we had seen 5,000 Europeans (for 90% of them concentrated in a few countries of North-West Europe) leaving for the Syria or Iraq.
It was necessary to understand at that time - and this was not easy - that these movements of convergence of European fighters towards Syria and Iraq were revealed by the Islamic State, but not created by it.
The Islamist dynamic preceded Daesh.
And since Daesh was destroyed in its territorial form in Syria and Iraq, these dynamics have not disappeared.
They have even been partly re-imported into Europe, in particular
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