“What have we done since Charlie?”

Ten years after the attack on Charlie Hebdo Islamists openly call for jihad, rape, murder and anti-Semitism in France. But what have we done with these ten years? On social networks, these individuals express their hatred, often in Arabic, and are followed by hundreds of thousands of people. One of them has just been arrested in Montpellier. Two others, Algerians like him, were arrested on Friday. In Brest, Zazou Youcef was convicted of theft in January 2013. The parent of a French child, he nevertheless obtained a residence permit in March of the same year before receiving a year in prison for violence. In Grenoble, Imad Tintin is married to a French woman.

Both have been under OQTF (obligation to leave the territory) for several months. Their cases illustrate to the point of caricature the difficulty of sending them back to Algeria. But how can we accept it when our country has been hit for twelve years by 55 Islamist attacks causing…