“The wave is over”, Secretary of State Othman Nasrou wants to strike hard

Thursday 10th October 2024 06:18 PM

Less than two weeks after his appointment as Secretary of State for Citizenship, Othman Nasrou went this Friday to a session of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalization (CIPDR). A way to demonstrate the government’s firmness in the face of the scourge of Islamist radicalization, particularly among young people.

This Friday, October 4, Othman Nasrou, new Secretary of State for Citizenship, participated in a session of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalization (CIPDR). In particular, he displayed the wishes of the government on this rather burning issue.

This session took place behind closed doors and brought together more than 180 hand-picked field workers. Among them, police officers and gendarmes, prefecture agents and even National Education officials, all witnesses to the radicalization and violence of an increasingly young public.

“The main sources of radicalization are twofold. First there is the fox, the one who takes advantage of the weaknesses of our young and old, and then there is the capacity of the latter to resist the temptation of violence and racism,” Étienne Apaire explained to CNEWS. , secretary general of the CIPDR.

Worrying figures

For his part, Othman Nasrou took advantage of this opportunity to display his firmness, and that of the government, on the subject: “The no wave is over. All our agents who are on the ground must know that the State will be at their side when it comes, each time, to defending secularism and fighting against radicalization.”

The latest figures are clear. While adolescents only represented barely 1% of indictments for terrorist conspiracy in 2022, this figure now rises to 21% for the period from January to July 2024. In 2023, it had already increased and had increased to 10%, according to data from the national anti-terrorism prosecution.

A burning issue therefore, now in the hands of the new Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau. Othman Nasrou, for his part, promised to boost the response against separatism.