INTERVIEW
Faced with the unprecedented profile of Mickaël Harpon, the author of the attack at the police headquarters of Paris in which four police officers were killed, the controversy swells about the poor monitoring of the signs of religious radicalization spotted in this computer scientist. years.
If it considers "difficult to judge this case", the former boss of the RAID Jean-Michel Fauvergue, invited Monday Europe 1, however, that France today pays its lack of initiative against radicalization since years. "Our infinite cowardice not to react on a number of things is now paid cash," he regrets.
DECYPT - Why intelligence services did not detect the killer's radicalization
"It is clear that intelligence services must be protected in a specific way," said the one who is now LREM deputy from Seine-et-Marne. And while in 16 years of career, Mickaël Harpon had not been the subject of a thorough investigation when obtaining his secret-defense clearance, Jean-Michel Fauvergue notes "that we will have to look into how to pass clearances and reassess public servants in a routine way on this type of service there ".
"We must harden the tone"
Noting that "the evolution of radicalization in France dates back decades," Jean-Michel Fauvergue believes that "our infinite cowardice not to react on a number of things is now paid cash." "We must fight against radicalization, Salafism, and harden the tone," he calls again. And the former boss of the RAID to refer to the work of the "excellent" mission of information on radicalization in the public services, which one of the co-rapporteurs was the guest of Europe 1 Monday. reread what has been said by the deputies and senators, and apply what they say, "asks Jean-Michel Fauvergue.