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22 years after 9/11, what about the terrorist threat in France and around the world? This is the subject of the franceinfo Talk of this Monday, September 11. Ludovic Pauchant receives Alexandra Ackoun, journalist and former correspondent in New York, Marc Hecker, director of research and promotion at Ifri and Fabien Truong, sociologist and teacher at Paris 8 University.
This Monday, Americans commemorate the attacks of September 11, the deadliest terrorist attack in history.
Twenty-two years ago, jihadists hijacked four planes. Two of them hit the World Trade Center towers in the heart of New York, one crashed into part of the Pentagon near Washington, and a last one in Pennsylvania, in a wooded area of Shanksville. A total of 2,977 people died in these attacks.
22 years later, the remains of two victims killed in the “Twin Towers” could be identified using DNA, authorities announced. However, 1,104 people have still not been able to be identified, or 40% of the victims, due to the violence of the deluge of fire, dust and steel following the collapse of the two towers.
22 years later, a threat still present
Gérald Darmanin evoked, Saturday September 9 on France 2, a resurgence of the risk of attack conceived abroad. The slightest presenceAmericans, French, in the Sahel, the Levant and Afghanistan” would be the reason for such a risk according to the Minister of the Interior.
Expressing his “worry”, Gérald Darmanin evokes the “projected threats”, namely the plans for attacks conceived abroad and implemented by teams sent to France. “We thought for a very long time that this could no longer happen.”, he underlined, ensuring that the country protects itself against any possible threat and avoids a new Bataclan.
However, the main terrorist threat is, according to him, endogenous: a radicalized person carrying out the act alone. “We thwart an attack every two months in France” indicated the Minister of the Interior. The threat of a new terrorist attack is therefore “very strong” in the country.
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