Gérald Bronner is professor of sociology at the University of Paris, member of the Academy of Technologies and of the National Academy of Medicine. Last published book: “Cognitive Apocalypse”, PUF, 2021.
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LE FIGARO. - Jean-Luc Mélenchon's latest outing on the terrorist attacks preceding the presidential election
"to start a war against Muslims"
shocked public opinion. Are these comments serious, in your opinion? Is it defensible?
Gerald BRONNER.
- These words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon are very serious.
To say of the attacks of Mohammed Merah, a criminal who killed not only soldiers but children, that they were instigated or exaggerated to
"point the finger at Muslims",
is more than a slippage, it is an abjection moral.
It is an indisputably conspiratorial rhetoric which joins that of the conspiracy theories which spread after September 11 or
Charlie Hebdo
to explain that these attacks were organized by the Western secret services or the Mossad for
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