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Anti-terrorism law: two attacks thwarted thanks to digital traces since 2017, according to Darmanin

2021-04-30T19:35:02.994Z


Two of the 35 attacks foiled since 2017 have been “ thanks to the digital traces ” left by their authors, said Wednesday April 28 Gérald Darmanin, defending his anti-terrorism bill which provides for the use of the controversial technique of algorithms to track people suspected of radicalization. Read also: Rambouillet attack: the anti-terrorism law fixes the response to the nebula It is a quest


Two of the 35 attacks foiled since 2017 have been “

thanks to the digital traces

” left by their authors, said Wednesday April 28 Gérald Darmanin, defending his anti-terrorism bill which provides for the use of the controversial technique of algorithms to track people suspected of radicalization.

Read also: Rambouillet attack: the anti-terrorism law fixes the response to the nebula

It is a question of "

applying to the Internet what we apply to the telephone

" in terms of surveillance, explained on this subject on France Inter the Minister of the Interior. For the two attacks foiled since 2017 thanks to digital traces, the algorithms then did

not

use "

URLs

" (Internet addresses, editor's note) as will be the case in his bill presented this Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, specified Gerald Darmanin.

He insisted on the profile of the perpetrators of the recent attacks, who quickly radicalized and were not listed by the intelligence services. "

There were 9 attacks in a row that we could not detect with constant means

," he said. Referring to the murderer of Samuel Paty and that of the Basilica of Nice in October, the minister stressed that both communicated only by Facebook and (messaging) Messenger, and not by telephone: "

The terrorists have changed the way they communicate

”. Regarding respect for public freedoms, he replied that listening to someone detected by algorithms required "

authorizations

" and that parliamentary control was provided for in the law.

Asked about a possible "

link between terrorism and immigration

", Gérald Darmanin replied: "

there may be a link but this link is obviously not automatic

". He noted that “

three-quarters

” of the attacks had been carried out by “

people of French nationality

”. However, he judged that it was necessary to "

control the European borders

".

Source: lefigaro

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