Marlène Schiappa launches a "unit" to fight against "cyber-Islamism"

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In an interview with

posted online Friday, Marlène Schiappa announces the creation of a “republican counter-discourse unit on social networks” to try to fight against “cyber-Islamism”, questioned since the assassination of Samuel Paty.

The Minister for Citizenship specifies that this unit will be placed "under the authority of the interministerial committee for the prevention of delinquency and radicalization and the fight against sectarian aberrations" chaired by the prefect Christian Gravel.

Monday, the entourage of Marlène Schiappa had insisted on the need for the State not to be absent from the net and to organize "a counter-speech" to respond to hate speech.

"We see the development of discourse of Islamists on the web, of systematic victimization, without anyone denying them", she underlines in her interview, adding that the government wants to carry "a discourse of counter-propaganda" .

"The counter-discourse must be ready, to defend our values"

She cites as an example, "the search of the premises of the Baraka City association [which the government now wishes to dissolve, editor's note]", which gave rise to comments accusing the government of "Islamophobia".

“But we are in a state of law.

If there was a search under the authority of the judge, it is because there were elements in a judicial file.

We took several days to respond, ”through the spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior.

“Next time, the counter-speech must be ready, to defend our values.

There are examples in England, in Germany, from which we can draw inspiration!

», Adds the Minister.

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