“We are 68 million French people, minus 42 lives lost.” This Wednesday, in the main courtyard of Les Invalides in Paris, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the Franco-Israelis who died during the October 7 attack in Israel, perpetrated by Hamas. Invited this Thursday morning in La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews, former Prime Minister Manuel Valls praised the great dignity of this ceremony. At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, he insists: “In Israel, in Europe, in France, we obviously face, with nuances, different contexts, the same threat: that of Islamism, of jihadism. This political Islam which has also made Europe and Arab-Muslim communities of immigrant origin the main objective to create the conditions for a secession of fractures within our societies.
“And a democracy like Israel is confronted, like us, with this threat which aims to destroy it. Since Islamism wants to destroy not only Jews, but Christians, the West, democracy, our universal values,” continues the former head of government, whose memory of the attacks of November 13 still remains.
Islamism, “one of the heaviest threats we face”
“We must not be afraid to identify the enemy,” he continues. “We have been living with these terrorist acts for almost ten years. This terrorist threat is not behind us, it is in front of us. In the aftermath of the attacks of January 2015 with Charlie Hebdo, Hypercacher and Montrouge, I “I told young high school students that they were going to live, that their generation was going to live with this threat. We must therefore name the threat”, adds Manuel Valls.
For the former socialist, political Islam is “one of the heaviest threats we have to face. It is existential because it is not an external threat, but a threat which comes from our own blood, from us, from our neighborhoods. It is a very serious threat which is also accompanied by an anti-Semitic tsunami, a hatred of Jews,” he concludes.