The mandate has been marked by the creation of the national anti-terrorist floor. The refusal of the systematic repatriation of children still detained in Syria remains a shadow in the table.
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Emmanuel Macron, when he lists the crises he has crossed during his five-year old, never fail to start with terrorism, “this challenge of our generations”, according to the formula he used, Sunday, March 20th In Toulouse, during the tribute he gave to the victims of Mohammed Merah. The series of Toulousain terrorist attacks, in March 2012, marked the beginning of a bloody decade in France.
A jihadist threat in decrease and changing
At the moment when Emmanuel Macron arrives in power, the jihadist threat remains very high. Two days before the first round of the presidential election, in April 2017, the police officer Xavier judge is shot down on the Champs-Elysees. Since then, the threat has only decreased to fall, beginning 2022, at a residual level. This decrease is the effect, above all, the defeat and the disappearance of the Caliphate of the Islamic State Organization (EI) with the loss of Mosul and then Rakka, in 2017. and finally the fall of its last bastion , in March 2019 in Baghouz, in the north-east of Syria. But it also results from the best coordination between the different services responsible for the anti-terrorism, including the Internal Safety Branch (DGSI) has been designated leadership by Mr. Macron. The counter-terrorism control, to which 1,000 new positions have been affected, is now led by a duet formed from Nicolas Lerner, at the head of the DGSI, and Laurent Nuñez, National Intelligence Coordinator at the Elysee.
On December 6, 2021, at a symposium organized in Paris by the Montaigne Institute, the European Leadership Network and Fondapol, Marlène Schiappa, Minister Delegated to Citizenship, was estimated at 36 the number of jihadist attacks. In France since 2017 (20 in 2017, 7 in 2018, 4 in 2019, 2 in 2020 and 3 in 2021), against 14 attacks committed (3 in 2017, 3 in 2018, 1 in 2019, 6 in 2020 and 1 in 2021 ) having caused a total of 25 dead and 83 wounded. During this period, the number of data sheets (for “state security”) active in the field of jihadist terrorism increased from more than 8,000 to 5,500.
In this rather positive assessment, the fall 2020 is a serious shadow in the table: three attacks followed on a shot, in Paris, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) then Nice, in full trial of the attacks of Charlie Hebdo. They all seem to have been motivated by the republication of the caricatures of Muhammad by the satirical weekly and the violent campaign launched against France by actors as diverse than Al-Qaida, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or the Pakistani Islamist parties.
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