Gérald Darmanin spoke on Saturday evening of the resurgence of the risk of an attack conceived abroad, of the type of those of November 13, 2015. Reviewing the different terrorist threats that France must face, during the broadcast what time on France 2, the Minister of the Interior spoke of “the projected threats”. These are attack plans designed abroad and implemented by teams sent to France. “The projected threat: the Bataclan. We thought for a very long time that this could no longer happen. What is happening in Afghanistan, in the Levant, in Africa is replenishing money, means to create a projected threat. That’s what we’re worried about,” he said.
“We thwart an attack every two months in France”
As he was asked if he “thought that there could be a new Bataclan”, Gérald Darmanin replied: “we are guarding ourselves against the possible projected threat which is reconstituted because the Americans, the French are less present in the Sahel , in the Levant and in Afghanistan. However, according to the minister, the main terrorist threat is endogenous, that is to say coming from a radicalized person carrying out the act alone.
” It’s very difficult. We thwart an attack every two months in France,” he said, noting that “5,800 people were on file with the Ministry of the Interior who (the authorities) think could carry out the act.” Finally, the last threat is that coming from “the ultra-right”, with “the supremacists and the accelerationists”, added the minister. According to him, there would be “a few dozen”.