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More than 8,000 people (8,132) are to date registered in the file of alerts for the prevention of terrorist radicalization (FSPRT), announced Monday the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin.

While traveling to the headquarters of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI), Gérald Darmanin stressed that the terrorist threat "remained extremely high on the territory", specifying that the "terrorist risk of Sunni origin remained the main threat to which is facing our country ”.

A relentless fight

Two days before the opening of the trial of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks in January 2015, the Minister of the Interior assured that "the fight against Islamist terrorism was a top priority for the government".

"We will wage a relentless fight (...) we will never give up relentlessly tracking down these enemies of the Republic", he insisted.

Detailing the forms of the terrorist threat, Gérald Darmanin estimated that "despite the military defeat of the Islamic State (...) the external component of the threat (terrorist action developed abroad and planned in France, Editor's note), even if it has decreased, should continue to be the object of our full attention ”.

Growing challenge

Nevertheless, for him, it is "the endogenous threat (projects of terrorist acts developed on the territory, Editor's note) which is" the most significant and the strongest ".

"It is fed by the propaganda of terrorist groups, inspired by veterans of the Jihad but also by the hold that supporters of radical Islam are trying to have in some of our neighborhoods," he added.

The minister considered that "the threat represented by individuals followers of radical Islam (...) was becoming a growing challenge for the intelligence services which now ensure the follow-up of 8,132 individuals registered with the FSPRT".

Faced with the scale of the challenges in the fight against terrorism, Gérald Darmanin emphasized the additional resources allocated to the DGSI, which will see its staff increase by “1,260 agents throughout the five-year term”.

A worrying future

Addressing the issue of the forthcoming release of the “505 Islamist terrorist detainees linked to the Islamist movement”, to which he added “702 common law detainees susceptible to radicalization”, he argued that it was a “ major security challenge ”.

"In 2020, he said, the release forecasts are evaluated at 45 detainees for acts of terrorist association", and in 2021 at "63 Islamist terrorists sentenced".

Gérald Darmanin also called for vigilance concerning “other forms of action” emanating from “small radical groups or isolated individuals in favor of recourse to violence”.

He cited in this regard the arrest last May in Limoges of a "supremacist", who wanted to attack places of Jewish worship.

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