David Gaüzère is a doctor in geography, president of the Center for Observation of Central Asian Societies (COSAC) and associate researcher at the French Center for Intelligence Research (CF2R). In December 2020, he notably published
The Green Cauldron of Central Asian Islam
.
Towards a return of fighting ethnic groups in post-Soviet Central Asia
, published by L'Harmattan.
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LIVE – Attack in Moscow: Islamic State claims responsibility for attack that left several dead in a concert hall in Russia
LE FIGARO.- A few hours after
the deadly attack in a Moscow concert hall
, the attack was claimed by the Islamic State (IS) and suspicion now falls on its Afghan branch.
Is this the most plausible avenue at the moment?
David GAÜZERE.-
Yes, the hypothesis of an attack perpetrated by the Islamic State is by far the most likely.
But we will then have to see more precisely whether the attack was carried out by direct fighters from the Central Asian branch of Daesh, the Islamic State-Khorasan Organization (OEI-K), that is to say from the
“central”
group. of the OEI-K, a sort of Praetorian Guard…
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