Dear subscribers,
On September 8, the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 began. Salah Abdeslam broke the silence in which he had walled himself for six years.
His first words before the Assize Court, he pronounced them to attest to his allegiance to his religion: "
I want to testify that there is no other God than Allah and Muhammad is his prophet
".
A first provocation towards his judges, soon followed by complaints about his conditions of detention.
A belligerent speech mixed with victimization.
For Céline Pina, the terrorist
"has remained the same as the one he was when he was arrested, a small thug without stature who built himself in the hatred of what we are and does not have the intellectual means to understand a civilization which chooses the rule of law against arbitrary violence ”.
Admittedly, this lack of remorse or awareness is by no means a surprise, but we must now ensure that this exceptional trial does not become a platform for the Islamist terrorist.
Let us focus on the facts, not the diatribes of the main accused.
Because if
"Salah Abdeslam is on the ground, the ideology which made him commit his crimes is more than ever standing"
, recalls the essayist.
Let us hope that this trial is an electric shock for public opinion and that it forces politicians and decision-makers to face this deadly ideology.
Happy reading everyone,
Aziliz Le Corre
The big interview of Figaro Magazine -
Douglas Murray
The author of
The Strange Suicide of Europe
warns about the consequences of the withdrawal of the Americans from Afghanistan.
A migration crisis comparable to that of 2015 is possible, he judges.
To be read in full on FigaroVox.
Douglas Murray Lionel Derimais / Opale / Leemage
The debates of the week
What did Jean-Paul Belmondo represent for the French?
The actor died at the age of 88, this Monday, September 6.
The writer Thomas Morales pays a final tribute to the “energy teacher of all French people”.
Has great literature disappeared?
Forged by letters, Alain Finkielkraut deplores in his new essay, “After Literature” (Stock), the disappearance, not of novels, but of a relationship to the world woven of complexity and finesse.
What is the state of the terrorist threat in France?
Despite the efforts of the police and investigating judges since the November 2015 attacks, the terrorist threat in France is again very high today, believes Thibault de Montbrial, lawyer at the Paris bar, defender of ten of civil parties at the trial which opens this Wednesday.
Should we abolish all standards in the name of respect?
Debates relating to transgender people occupy a considerable place in Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian European countries, and now, to a lesser extent, in France. In a subtle and chiseled essay, of which Le Figaro publishes the right sheets, Claude Habib, professor emeritus at the New Sorbonne University, essayist and novelist, is worried to see a growing number of minors decide for themselves to commit to the way of a "transition" from one sex to the other.
Should school principals be allowed to recruit their teachers?
Emmanuel Macron announced on September 2 in Marseille that an experiment was going to be launched in 50 schools in the city to allow school leaders to choose their teachers.
The lawyer and president of Iref, Jean-Philippe Delsol, is delighted and argues in favor of a total overhaul of the French educational model.
While the teacher Barbara Lefebvre denounces a destruction of the school system and an attack on the teaching profession.
The essay of the week -
The tango of the gravediggers
by François-Xavier Bourmaud and Charles Sapin
In a dense and documented essay, François-Xavier Bourmaud and Charles Sapin, journalists at Le Figaro, analyze how the two finalists in the 2017 presidential election managed to bury all opposition and install an unprecedented political divide.
Read on FigaroVox.
Macron-Le Pen, The tango of the gravediggers
, François-Xavier Bourmaud and Charles Sapin, 240 p., € 19 L'Archipel