INTERVIEW
How to improve, in the public services and the administration, the reports of signs of religious radicalization? Four days after the assassination of four officials at the police headquarters in Paris, a report from the prefecture department where Mickaël Harpon was working, reveals that several of the murderer's colleagues had alerted their hierarchy of disturbing signals, although these alerts were not followed by concrete consequences.
Invited Monday of Europe 1, Eric Poulliat, deputy LREM of Gironde and co-rapporteur of an information mission on the radicalization in the public services, considers that "the agents must remount information without embarrassment and without resistance", especially for these staff, because of their proximity to their colleagues, "it is not always easy to trace intelligence."
According to the internal note of the Prefecture, "several colleagues of the person concerned have thus revealed to have noted, in the past, in the interested party, signs of radicalization, and declare to have alerted their hierarchy or taken advice with colleagues specialized in these problems ". According to the boss of the Directorate of Intelligence of the PP (DRPP), Françoise Bilancini, who signs this letter, these elements were however only brought to its attention after the deadly attack on Thursday, "in the course of discussions informal ". Still according to the four-page report sent to the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner, Mickaël Harpon had said "it is well done", referring to the attack on Charlie Hebdo , while had also been mentioned certain changes in behavior agent to women.
"It's sometimes complicated internally"
"It is necessary that the processes of feedback of the information are clearly identified", claims Eric Poulliat on Europe 1, "that the referents are totally known". "Agents have to get back information without embarrassment and resistance, because everything rests on it," added the MP. An improvement of the procedures all the more necessary that, for the agents witnesses of possible signals of radicalization at colleagues, the situation can be complex. "It's sometimes complicated internally," says Eric Pouillat. "Your colleagues, it's been 20 years that you work with them, sometimes they slip once, twice, we want to excuse, etc. These are often people whose family we know." "It's not always easy to trace intelligence," he concludes, but "there is no alternative, because behind, there are lives at stake."
Concerning a risk of radicalization within the security services, Eric Poulliat notes that at the time of his information mission, "a lot of things were done, it did not seem to us like the weak link." The Prefecture of Police of Paris We were told about ten suspicious cases, followed, it seemed under control, but 10 or 30 cases on all of our internal security forces is enough for there to be a tragedy. " And on the transport sector, where "the problem number 1 was the community", there is still "a good margin of progress, not yet major elements that have made it changed," said the elected representative. Gironde.