Yanis Darras
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9:30 a.m., December 4, 2023
Traces of blood are still visible on the sidewalk near the Bir Hakeim bridge in Paris. This Saturday evening, a German tourist was killed in a knife attack near the Eiffel Tower. The terrorist, a 26-year-old Franco-Iranian, already convicted for a planned attack in La Défense, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
Questioned this Monday morning on the subject, the national delegate of the SGP Police-Force Ouvrière Unit union, Linda Kebbab, is concerned about the fight against terrorism in France. “Everything rests on the shoulders of the police,” she warns at Sonia Mabrouk’s microphone.
“There is a fishpond behind”
“Each time, everything rests on the shoulders of the intelligence police officers, on the judicial police officers, on the everyday police officers who intervene on the front line and who neutralize attackers or arrest them. It is all the time on the shoulders of the police officers, it’s okay,” she says alarmed.
“We never question the dysfunctions from birth to death of the individual, and in particular the judicial system and the means it can implement to prevent things from happening again. Because there, we is talking about people who have been convicted, but there is a pool behind it,” adds the police officer, who is concerned about the exposure of certain minors to jihadist propaganda on social networks.
“I also want to talk about entrants” into the terrorist movement
“Young men, I am thinking particularly of young men since they are mainly represented in this type of acts, who are 10, 11 or 12 years old, and are exposed to speeches which potentially will make them terrorists tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. And what is France doing to ensure that, today, children or young adults will not be terrorists tomorrow?” she continues.
“We often talk about those leaving (Islamism), I also want to talk about those entering,” she concludes, stressing that the judicial system is too lenient towards people arrested before taking action. “On average, we actually see prison sentences of between three and five years for people who plan to commit terrorist attacks. Is this insufficient? Probably. While we have criminalized the thing, we find ourselves today today with sentences handed down that more closely resemble those of misdemeanors,” she is indignant.