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* William Molinié

new form of terrorism was she born? A few weeks after the appearance of a legal arsenal supposed to secure the investigation in the fight against terrorism, the authorities are again confronted with an unprecedented expression of violence. It appeared twice in the same way in just 24 hours.

The first time in Dijon on Sunday night when a 40 year old man was injured 13 in the city center running at full speed several times his vehicle on pedestrians. Same scenario the next day, Monday, the Christmas market in Nantes making ten wounded, including a state of “clinical death”. Each time, the investigation is assigned to the local court, pointing the “unbalanced” nature or “addict” authors, dismissing out of hand the terror track.



No Link “seemingly”

“It is indisputably terrorist acts”, yet checks with 20 Minutes Thibault de Montbrial, a lawyer and executive director of the Center for Terrorism Analysis (CAT). “Whether it happens twice in 24 hours and just after a new video of the organization of the Islamic state which describes this procedure, it is not a coincidence,” he notes.

In contrast to this logic, the logic of the authorities is to separate these assaults each other. “These three events have no connection between them, but apparently there is a coincidence,” said François Hollande on his arrival in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, where he began a 24-hour visit.



“The author’s personality determines the nature of the act”

Fous or terrorists? Roland Coutanceau psychiatrist puts these events on behalf of the “media mimicry.” “The expression of extremist ideas on the Internet [...] creates a kind of excitement, fascination. They see that the psychiatrist called a “negative hero”. Seduced, they can say, “I could be one of those able to do that,” he said in the columns of Paris

The images and. religious ideology advocated by the excesses of the Islamic state organization may have influenced individuals ‘unbalanced’. “Even if we take Nemmouche and Merah, one is faced with people who go crazy. Their actions are delusional, “says, told 20 Minutes , René-Georges Querry, former head of counter-terrorism. Yet for Nantes and Dijon, justice quickly rejected the terrorist track. Why? “Because one goal and act not enough to advance the terrorist characterization of the act. It is now the personality of the author determines the nature of the act, terrorist or not. That’s totally new. “



” We are in permanent low-intensity conflict “

Thibault de Montbrial Also agrees with this innovative feature. He believes that we will have to “revise our terrorism analysis software.” “Do not generalize. But there is no need not to talk to the adult population, “continues the close anti-terrorist judge Marc Trévidic with whom he had issued a forum late April April asking a law against jihadist networks.

” This is not the Apocalypse. But we are now low-intensity conflict permanently on our territory. We were used to bomb in the trash. We are always on display but we adapted. Now we will adapt to these new types of isolated attacks, “he added, also making the bet that eventually the two cases of Nantes and Dijon will be recovered by the anti-terrorism law.