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Laurent Nuñez: "With 170 sabotages perpetrated since March 2020, the ultra-left is gaining momentum"

2021-01-13T18:32:10.845Z


INTERVIEW - The national coordinator of intelligence and the fight against terrorism reveals that some militants have even gone to fight in Syrian Kurdistan.


Arrests of activists who know how to handle weapons and explosives, an uninterrupted wave of sabotage in the territory… Violent acts and the threat of the ultra-left are increasing in the country, as Laurent Nuñez explains in

Figaro

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LE FIGARO.

- After the recent arrest of militants with weapons and explosives, is the threat of the ultra-left and of a shift to “direct action” stronger today?

Laurent NUÑEZ.

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This is indeed the case, since, for the first time in thirteen years, the terrorist qualification was retained against a group dismantled in December by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI).

The investigation is underway, and we must therefore remain very careful until all the light is shed, but this cell seemed very worrying, with members spread over several points of the territory, in particular an individual who would have stayed for several months in Rojava

(Syrian Kurdistan, Editor's note),

so a priori experienced.

The cell

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Source: lefigaro

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