Prime Minister Jean Castex on Sunday denounced the "compromises for too many years" with radical Islamism and asked the "national community" to be "united and proud" of its values to lead the "ideological fight Against this enemy.
"This fight, it is ideological: the enemy first seeks to divide us by spreading hatred and violence, to fracture the national community", warned the head of government, guest of the 20H of TF1.
"I want here to denounce all the compromises that there have been for too many years, the justifications for this radical Islamism: + we should self-flag, regret colonization, + I don't know what else", he added. .
"The first way to win a war is for the national community to be united, either united, or proud of our roots, of our identity, of our Republic, of our freedom, we must win the ideological battle", ruled the Prime Minister.
New upcoming dissolutions of associations
"It's over, no more complacency of intellectuals, political parties, we must all be united on the basis of our values, on the basis of our history," he insisted.
In terms of "operational and repressive responses", the head of government announced new upcoming dissolutions of associations.
"We must attack the evil at the root, (...) they attack associations screens, false mosques, they form clandestine schools, they use social networks, all this is at the heart of our strategy" , he explained.
“The underground schools, we are closing them, we will continue to close them;
the false associations that are brainwashing, we are going to dissolve them (...), we have closed two of them and we are going to continue, ”he said.
"We must imperatively strengthen our legislation, especially the means of action to face" hatred on social networks, he added.
He also responded to the right and to the RN who demand exceptional legislation after the deadly attack in a church in Nice committed Thursday by a young Tunisian recently arrived in France.
He recalled that a "bill which had been announced by the President of the Republic (on separatism) will very soon be submitted to Parliament and" will strengthen our legal arsenal ".
"We can change the laws indefinitely, it is better to first apply them on a daily basis with all the axes that I have outlined for you," he insisted.