Tag: Terrorism
“It was my militant duty to go there”, comic book story by André Hébert with the Kurds against Daesh
How did an idealistic young Frenchman, politically committed to the left, decide to go to Syria to militarily fight the jihadists of the Islamic State group? André Hébert is the…
“At the time, I was in a utopia”
It is a rare word heard this Friday, January 20, the specially composed Assize Court of Paris. Jonathan Geffroy is being prosecuted for “terrorist criminal association for having joined Syria…
MEPs call for the Revolutionary Guards to be listed as a terrorist organization
The European Parliament on Wednesday asked the EU to include the Revolutionary Guards, Tehran’s ideological army, on the blacklist of “terrorist organizations”. MEPs, meeting in plenary session, invite the Union…
At the Barjols trial, “the fantasy of political justice” immediately challenged
The trial of thirteen ultra-right activists opened on Tuesday January 17 before the Paris Criminal Court. Eleven men and two women aged 26 to 66 are suspected of having wanted…
Arrest in the Netherlands of a former leader of the Islamic State group
Dutch police have arrested a Syrian refugee in the Netherlands, suspected of having played an important role within Daesh and Jabhat al-Nusra, in particular in the “camp” of Yarmouk south…
Former Toulouse jihadist Jonathan Geffroy before the special assize court in Paris
Since his arrest in 2017 with his wife, Jonathan Geffroy has provided a lot of information to investigators on his career within the Islamic State organization but also on the…
On the front page: Olivier Faure’s pole position which reinforces the anchoring on the left of the PS
The horizon is clearing up for Olivier Faure at the head of the Socialist Party in France. He who directs it, curled the absolute majority in the first ballot of…
feedback on remarks by Clément Baur
At the trial of the foiled attack just before the French presidential election of 2017, the Court of Assizes of Paris listened, this Friday January 13, 2023, to the remarks…
former President Sirisena found guilty of negligence
This is a first in the history of Sri Lanka. The Supreme Court found former President Sirisena guilty of failing to thwart the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, the country’s worst…
ten years ago began Serval, operation acclaimed at the time, unthinkable today
Just ten years ago, the French army went to war in Mali. It was on the night of January 10 to 11, 2013, the start of Operation Serval. Paris was…