What are the limits of de-radicalization? Asma GUENIFI, psychologist, exposes the different stages of radicalization: "the tipping is when the other no longer exists... there is no more exchange". A person persuaded to be in the truth sees the other as an enemy. But there is an additional step: the passage to the terrorist act which implies that the conviction of being in the just allows to consider killing the other to save the "elect". Omero MARONGIU, sociologist of religions, thinks that for an individual who is at the beginning of his adherence to fundamentalist Islamist theses, it is possible to question his ideas. On the other hand, if it has shifted and completely cut itself off from the world, it becomes extremely complicated. Asma GUENIFI believes that there is no longer any possibility of "recovering" those who have committed terrorist acts.
Dounia BOUZAR, anthropologist and director of the CPDSI (centre for the prevention of sectarian excesses related to Islam) explains the difficulties to overcome to carry out a process of deradicalization to its end. The relational recruitment of a young person is the most complicated aspect to deal with. Teenagers by adhering to an ideology integrate a group from which it is difficult to cut them: "they felt in fusion, valued". These radicalized young people also follow "a digital tribe, that is to say their new virtual friends on the internet". Even when they are supported, these young people can "dive back" if they do not cut off contact with their digital networks. The anthropologist thinks that they should sometimes be put in closed centres without access to the internet to "detox".
Walid, a young Frenchman converted to Islam ("William" before his radicalization), evokes his shift towards radical Islam, and talks about his journey as a jihad fighter.
Report on the French girls recruiting mujahedeen for Iraq. Young candidates for jihad are recruited in Parisian mosques. For police officer Stéphane Berthomet, it is more difficult to dismantle these recruitment networks than a supply structure for forged papers or weapons.
Going to Syria to do jihad with four children from a month and a half to fourteen years old: this is the crazy project led by a couple with a blended family. Their relatives, convinced of their radicalization, have not heard from them since their departure for Turkey.
The Interior Ministry decided to expel an imam from Brest, Abdelkader Yahia Cherif. The authorities accuse him of preaching radical Islam to the faithful.
The police carried out several administrative searches in mosques in the Paris area after the attacks of 13 November. In Aubervilliers, for example, a Salafist mosque is particularly in the sights of the authorities. Faced with these suspicions targeting certain places of worship, the Muslim community wonders. A delegation of imams, who came to gather in front of the Bataclan, was taken to task by Muslim faithful.
Many amateur sports clubs in France struggle with religion. In Toulouse, the intelligence services are monitoring a fighting club, one of whose members is linked to radical Islamism. A community retreat would have taken place in the club. A young athlete testifies, and explains why she left.
Two 15-year-old Toulouse teenagers went to fight with an armed Islamist group in Syria. The teenagers' friends had noticed a change in attitude on their part, unlike the administration of their school.
A young woman confides in her radicalization journey from adolescence. Coming out of the hell of indoctrination, she is not free from it. And the reconstruction journey is long...
One of the leaders of the Islamic centre in Sochaux has been subjected to an absolute emergency deportation procedure. He is suspected of opting out of Afid, the Islamic federal state of Anatolia, known as the most radical fringe of Muslim fundamentalism.