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[...] But, a child of difficult neighborhoods, of Maghrebi origin, also a protagonist of this feeling of negation and social relegation, while becoming a police officer, he did not have an easy life, as if the roles were reversed. As the author himself writes the torments of my targets were in part those of my past, and, at the time of fighting them, I at least had the immense advantage of understanding them». And it was thus that, even on duty, his hierarchy always tried to distance and gradually exclude him, suspecting him of radicalization, and turning against him what had until then made his strength. [...]
[...] Until this time, we did not yet speak of radicalization of Islam and, above all, we did not associate this notion with Islam. However, the evolution of terrorist acts that leave France defenseless forces it to inform itself and protect itself with security laws, as well as to wonder who protects it and how. The novel begins with the story of the radicalization of Islam in Seine-Saint-Denis, the department with the largest number of S files in all of France. [...]
[...] It is in this context that in 2006, the then President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was the first to use the rejection of the Muslim religion as a political driver and to found his debate on ' national identity». This, according to the author, only generates a kind of hysteria that, combined with the multiplication of attacks, consecrates the return to the forefront of the extreme right and the debate on religion. The republican ideal must be preserved against all radicalism and fanaticism. With the law on the prohibition of wearing the full veil, the Salafists, who were previously discreet, begin to appear gradually in the public space and tensions begin to appear in the mosques. [...]
[...] It is through phone taps, surveillance, and tailing that the author was able to infiltrate the places of radicalization of Islam and, more specifically, of the Salafist movement, the most radical, in Île-de-France, particularly in Seine-Saint-Denis. This book therefore tells, through a clear and realistic narrative, a crushing reality of French society, of which very few are aware. In the intelligence units of the judicial police services, police officers are subject to obligations of means, not results, all framed by a hierarchy at the top of which is the DRPP, which, since 2008, has seen its competence expand to the Parisian crown, from 'General Intelligence 93' to the Departmental Service of General Information (SDIG 93) in 2009 within the Central Directorate of Public Security (DCSP), to become the Central Service of Territorial Intelligence (SCRT). [...]
[...] Placed under house arrest by the DRPP management in 2016 due to divergences that had become too heavy, the author was put on leave as a disciplinary procedure was implemented against him. The book concludes with Noam Anouar's new position in the Border Police and the contradictions of French migration policies. As long as all these contradictions are not resolved, and a real collaboration and coordination between the different police services are actually put in place, radicalization and extremism will always have an important and dangerous place in our society, despite our republican ideals and our guarantee of rights. [...]
