Qome 4,000 kilometers between the two events: no one connects them but they are inseparable. On the one hand, in Paris, under the gaze of dozens of journalists, the trial of the perpetrators of the attacks of November 13, 2015 is taking place, which bloodied Paris and Saint-Denis, plunging France into horror and leading to a cascade of laws supposed to guarantee everyone’s security in the face of terrorism. At the helm succeeded investigators, experts, witnesses and civil parties, while the box raised claims from some of the terrorists.
A former President of the Republic, a former Minister of the Interior, the heads of the intelligence services, came to deliver their analysis, express their emotion and answer for their action. Out of duty, of course, but also driven by an ideal that unites all free men: proud to see that a trial of this magnitude has been organised, attentive to ensuring that everyone’s rights are respected and aware that justice will be so rendered.
But what do we get out of all these words and all these comments? An understanding of the pain of the victims and their loved ones, the horror of terrorism, the limits of our intelligence in 2015, the rather considerable loopholes in the control of who enters, and why, the Schengen area, and some ideas on the mechanics of Islamist totalitarian indoctrination. And the banality of evil, the only banality of evil, already described by Hannah Arendt about the Nazis (and others) as the only explanation. A partial view of the past.
On the other side, in northern Syria, in a ghostly no law land [« zone de non droit »] held by Kurdish forces, far from the concerns of the French media, part of our present and our future is at stake.
” Wasted time “
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, former leader of the Islamic State organization [EI] killed by the American special forces at the end of a well-conducted operation, that reassures for a moment… before his replacement appears. And at the same time, in Hassaké, a hundred jihadists attacked, in early 2022, a prison full of IS terrorists, allowing a certain number of them to escape.
In the Al-Hol camp, widows of jihadists have been able to flee easily, for years, against cold hard cash, the disappearance from radar of the spouse of Amedy Coulibaly, the terrorist who carried out the attack on the Hyper To hide [le 9 janvier 2015]attests to this.
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