The new age of anti-terrorism

Le Monde 16.03.2013 A year after Mohamed Merah’s killing spree in Toulouse and its surroundings, the domestic anti-terrorist initiatives of the French intelligence services comes under criticism for the failures in the case.  With problems in information sharing, lack of coordination and rivalries, French attempts to combat terrorism are criticised in front of the Committee…

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French intelligence curtailed tracking of Toulouse gunman

French intelligence services curtailed supervision of Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah a few months before his shooting spree in Toulouse despite his known links to extremists, according to leaked documents. The reports from France’s DCRI domestic intelligence service, seen by AFP, show that Merah was under intense surveillance throughout 2011 but that agents decided to reduce…

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Doubts prevail in of number of full-face veil-wearing women in France

This short article examines the question of how the number of women wearing full-face veils in France is counted. At the beginning of the controversy, a study undertaken by the DCRI (Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur) for Le Monde counted 367 niqab-wearing women. This number according to the DCRI is an estimate. Several weeks later…

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More and more radically Islamic women in France, says the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Interieur (DCRI)

According to the Central Office of the Information of the Interior (DCRI), a growing number of women in Auxerre, France are wearing niqabs and are increasingly conservative in their religious beliefs and practices. They actively proselytize when they pick up their children from school. Bernard Godard, author of Musulmans de France (with Sylvie Taussig, 2007),…

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