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In the summer of 2020 the French Senate published a report on the ‘Development of Islamist Radicalisation and the means of combatting it.’ It was a wide-ranging review which included contributions from academics, writers, Muslim associations and politicians. Among those interviewed by the commission were the ex-security advisor Alexandre del Valle, Zineb El Rhazoui, a former columnist for Charlie Hebdo and Hugo Micheron, a doctor in political science, and the author of a 2020 book entitled The French Jihadism.
The French Jihadism should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the nature of the threat posed by Islamic extremism – not just in France but across the West. Micheron interviewed 80 jihadists serving time for terror offences in French prisons. In most cases they explained their journey from disenchantment or delinquency to Islamism, and how it gave them purpose, motivation and fellowship. Above all, it imbued in the jihadists a hatred of western Society, a contempt shared by British, Belgian, Norwegian and all European extremists.
When Micheron was interviewed by the Senate he talked about Mohamed Merah, who in 2012 carried out the first deadly Islamist terror attack in France for 17 years. He shot dead seven people, including three Jewish children in a Toulouse school-yard, before he was killed in a shoot-out. ‘The police considered him, wrongly, as a lone wolf, but rather he was the product of ten years of Salafisation in the suburbs of Toulouse,’ Micheron explained to the Senate. ‘Merah was not a lone wolf: his act was perfectly understood by other Salafists, without links to Toulouse, like Larossi Abballa.’ In 2016 Abballa stabbed to death a couple in front of their three-year-old son in a Parisian suburb.
Micheron’s remarks were echoed by another expert, the author and Sorbonne professor Bernard Rougier, who told the Senate:
Continued below.
The idiotic myth of the ‘lone wolf’ attack | The Spectator
In the summer of 2020 the French Senate published a report on the ‘Development of Islamist Radicalisation and the means of combatting it.’ It was a wide-ranging review which included contributions from academics, writers, Muslim associations and politicians. Among those interviewed by the commission were the ex-security advisor Alexandre del Valle, Zineb El Rhazoui, a former columnist for Charlie Hebdo and Hugo Micheron, a doctor in political science, and the author of a 2020 book entitled The French Jihadism.
The French Jihadism should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the nature of the threat posed by Islamic extremism – not just in France but across the West. Micheron interviewed 80 jihadists serving time for terror offences in French prisons. In most cases they explained their journey from disenchantment or delinquency to Islamism, and how it gave them purpose, motivation and fellowship. Above all, it imbued in the jihadists a hatred of western Society, a contempt shared by British, Belgian, Norwegian and all European extremists.
When Micheron was interviewed by the Senate he talked about Mohamed Merah, who in 2012 carried out the first deadly Islamist terror attack in France for 17 years. He shot dead seven people, including three Jewish children in a Toulouse school-yard, before he was killed in a shoot-out. ‘The police considered him, wrongly, as a lone wolf, but rather he was the product of ten years of Salafisation in the suburbs of Toulouse,’ Micheron explained to the Senate. ‘Merah was not a lone wolf: his act was perfectly understood by other Salafists, without links to Toulouse, like Larossi Abballa.’ In 2016 Abballa stabbed to death a couple in front of their three-year-old son in a Parisian suburb.
Micheron’s remarks were echoed by another expert, the author and Sorbonne professor Bernard Rougier, who told the Senate:
Continued below.
The idiotic myth of the ‘lone wolf’ attack | The Spectator
