ISIS claimed responsibility for the knife attack that left two dead and three injured in London on Friday. The attack shakes the election campaign, the British general elections taking place on December 15. Boris Johnson, the current prime minister, promises that justice will now be stronger against jihadists. His opponents, meanwhile, denounce a scandalous recovery. Explanations of our chronicler, Vincent Hervouët.
Boris Johnson had suspended his campaign. She left again and embarked Usman Khan, the terrorist whose knife attack killed two people in London on Friday. The Prime Minister had already promised Brexit and an anti-austerity program. Like a hawker who adds a bonus, he now brandishes a judicial arsenal anti-terrorist. Sentences floor: 14 years for terrorist offense. No more parole for fanatics. And if necessary, security retentions. He has not yet proposed the expulsion of the suspects, the double punishment, the deprivation of nationality, the prison. But there are ten days of campaign left.
"The opposition is indignant"
As a bonus, the Prime Minister accuses Labor of being responsible for the law that ensured Usman Khan an automatic exit after six years, when he was sentenced to 16 years of imprisonment. Obviously, the opposition is indignant! And the press too, because the heroes who have mastered the terrorist are ex-offenders, one of whom is on leave. In general, after the attack, it is the sacred union. There are guilty people, terrorists. But no manager. No interior minister resigns. No magistrate is dismissed. As if Islamist terrorism was inevitable.
Boris Johnson is transgressive. He dares to say, "Give me a majority and I will protect you from terrorism." It's demagoguery. But he faces the flaws of the judicial system. The London attack shows that no one knows how to measure the degree of radicalization of a Salafist. Nor how to neutralize it.