In 2015, France suffered an unprecedented series of attacks on its soil, killing nearly 150 people in total, perpetrated by jihadists affiliated with Al-Qaida (the Kouachi brothers, perpetrators of the massacre in Charlie Hebdo) or to the Islamic State organization (Amedy Coulibaly, terrorist of the Hyper Cacher store, as well as the perpetrators of the November attacks). Were we then at the height of the terrorist threat in France?
In an interview with MondeHugo Micheron, teacher researcher at Sciences Po and author of Anger and forgetting. Democracies facing European jihadism (of which Gallimard published a new, revised and expanded edition in November 2024), takes stock of the jihadist threat, through the prism of recent major reconfigurations, from the Middle East to Artificial Intelligence.
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