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Radicalization, immigration, confinements… At 62, the director of public freedoms is the sword of the Ministry of the Interior. Portrait.
By Marc Leplongeon
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Reading time: 11 mins
“DisTop”. This is the affectionate nickname given to him by his close collaborators; a way of humorously designating its propensity to effectively dissolve associations of all kinds which, according to the Ministry of the Interior, incite hatred… In recent years, the extreme right-wing small group Génération identitaire has succumbed to it, as has BarakaCity , a humanitarian aid NGO whose positions of the leader – “May Allah curse charlie and ignite their graves in the heat of the sun,” he tweeted in 2020 – were deemed incompatible with the values of the French Republic.
Under the battering of “DesTop”, the Pantin mosque, mired in the Samuel Paty affair, had to temporarily close its doors, like those of Torcy, Lagny, As Sounna de Marse…
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