Islamist terrorism does not kill only in Arras or Paris, but all over the world, and what is happening today in Mali, Burkina Faso or the Middle East is very likely to have consequences in France and in Europe.
Published since 2014 by the Institute for Economics and Peace (Australian think tank), the annual report on the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) has the great merit of recalling this dual reality.
The 2024 vintage certainly deals with all terrorism, but the facts and statistics speak for themselves as to the nature of the main risk.
The four deadliest groups in fact all come from the Islamist matrix: the Islamic State and its subsidiaries coming first in 2023, with 1,636 deaths (from 25,000 to 40,000 since its appearance).
Then followed Hamas, after the massacres of October 7, the JNIM (Support Group for Islam and Muslims, a Sahelian structure affiliated with al-Qaeda) and finally the Somali chebab.
These…
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