Illustration from the Directorate General of Internal Intelligence (DGSI). - VINCENT WARTNER / 20 Minutes

Sixteen people have been "removed" from the intelligence services since 2014 "for their potential radicalization or that of their entourage" but none since the killing of the Paris police headquarters on October 3, 2019, Matignon said on Tuesday.

The Prime Minister's services are based on the conclusions of two missions entrusted to the Inspection of Intelligence Services (ISR), after the quadruple murder committed by a computer scientist working in the Intelligence Directorate, Mickaël Harpon, suspected of Islamist radicalization. The man had stabbed three police officers and an administrative officer to death within the confines of the Paris police headquarters, before being shot dead.

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