| | | French minister tells Biden regime that ‘Islamist terrorism,’ not ‘white supremacism,’ biggest threat in Europe
MAY 23, 2023 5:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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But did they listen? Almost certainly not. Will they act upon Darmanin’s recommendations? Almost certainly not.
“In New York, Darmanin is alarmed by a ‘resumption’ in Europe of an ‘Islamist terrorist’ threat,” translated from “À New York, Darmanin s’alarme d’une «reprise» en Europe d’une menace «terroriste islamiste»,” Le Figaro, May 20, 2023:
The Minister of the Interior has asked the US government to strengthen their counterterrorism cooperation before the Paris Olympics in 2024.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, visiting the United States, expressed alarm on Friday at a “resumption” of the “Islamist terrorist” threat in Europe and asked the American government to strengthen their anti-terrorist cooperation, before the Paris Olympics in 2024.
“We have come to remind them that for Europeans and for France, the primary risk is Sunni Islamist terrorism and that anti-terrorist collaboration between intelligence services is absolutely essential,” said Gérald Darmanin in an interview with AFP in New York. And “at a time when the Americans perhaps have a more national view of the disputes – white supremacism, repeated shootings, conspiracy – they must not forget what appears to us in Europe as the first threat: Sunni terrorism,” insisted the French minister.
Gérald Darmanin completed a two-day visit to Washington, New York and the UN, in order to boost police and judicial cooperation between France and the United States, provided for in a 2016 agreement, for the fight against terrorism and serious crime. He spoke with Deputy Justice Minister Lisa Monaco and Homeland Security Minister Alejandro Mayorkas, then visited the FBI Federal Police Training Center in Quantico, Virginia (east). In New York, he met with NYPD chief Keechant Sewell to discuss policing and security at major international events, citing the 2024 Olympics in Paris (July 26-11 August 2024), the Rugby World Cup (September 8 to October 28, 2023) and the visit of Pope Francis to Marseille on September 23.
“The risk resumes”
In this context, but without mentioning specific threats, Gérald Darmanin affirmed that “the risk resumes” in terms of “Islamist terrorism” which would once again target France and its European neighbors. He pointed to “an endogenous threat from people without networks but who, becoming radicalized, take action in a few hours, in a few days (…) Someone who takes a knife, enters a bakery and goes to kill folks.” And “there is the exogenous risk, organized people from outside who come to France to carry out a Bataclan-type attack” in Paris on November 13, 2015.
Gérald Darmanin thus deplored the “departure of Americans from Afghanistan” and that of France from “the Sahelo-Saharan strip,” “the reconstitution of cells of Daesh (Islamic State group) in the Levant, which make these exogenous threats, in the perspective of the major events that France will organize, are times of significant risk of terrorist attacks.” |
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