In an interesting test, the anthropologist and educator returns to the program launched in 2016 for defendants engaged in radical Islam.
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Ruse, reassure, stay firm, prevent them from turning. The mission of the people responsible for leaving the radicality the individuals linked to a terrorist company is random. But not impossible. In his new work, the Surgissants, the anthropologist and specialized educator David Puaud takes us behind the scenes of the prevention of extremist violence, with the association of applied criminal policy and social reintegration (APCARS), mandated in 2016 by the ‘Penitentiary administration to implement an experimental program for defendants placed under judicial supervision.
a France particularly late in this area
The said program was launched after the fiasco of the deradicalization center of Pontourny (Indre-et-Loire) and the attack on the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime) in July 2016. He Benefits from the experience resulting from the deradicalization programs for far -right groups implemented in the 1990s in Norway, Sweden or Germany, and similar attempts carried out with jihadists in Algeria or Egypt. So many precious examples for a France particularly late in this area, since it was not until “2014 to see the Council of Ministers adopt the first plan to combat violent radicalization”. The system concerns twenty-three people followed by a team made up in particular of a cult referent, a animator and a psychiatrist.
The objective? Bring them out of violence and reintegrate them. The method ? Gradually introduce doubt into their certainties, without proposing counter-discourse. Such learning of free will requires adapting to the singular biographical courses of these young people and the reasons for their unreason. It is even a “prerequisite for any action”, insists the author. Some have embarked on a whim, like Mohamed, to fight Bashar al-Assad and, incidentally, to obtain in Syria the recognition and the money they do not have here. Sarah (who comes back), Karima (who tried twice to go) and Naima (terrorist wife) seek in radical Islam an absolute truth.
in the service of the deconstruction of erroneous beliefs
The anthropologist recalls that we must never forget that the emergence of violence results “from a continuum of proven situations, a feeling of exclusion, violence and humiliation”. Also, as soon as she sees a rai of light, the team advances, half opened the front door towards the dialogue, preventing the young radicalized the slap or the lock in double. This is how he and Karima, eager to discuss conflicts in the Middle East, were received at Science Po by Laurent Bonnefoy, Arabic political scientist.
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