it is “impossible” to curb the individual risk of attacks, believes former judge Marc Trévidic

“There is a context which means that unstable people can do anything”, declared former anti-terrorism judge Marc Trévidic, guest of franceinfo on Wednesday November 1, in reaction to the intervention of police officers on the RER in Paris on Tuesday. The police opened fire on a woman who made threatening remarks, without it being known at this time whether she was radicalized, unstable, or both. “There are very high tensions. Obviously, unstable people can do anything, because they are pushed by a groundswell. We are talking about attacks, terrorist groups, Palestinians and Israelis killed.. .” He is “impossible” to curb the individual risk of attacks, believes Marc Trévidic, for whom individual acts are the main terrorist threat in France.

Unstable people are profiles “very complicated” to apprehend, because “we can’t do much with people who have psychiatric problems: they escape criminal justice, they end up in hospitals and they are put back out with treatments that they follow, or not. “ Gold, “the psychiatric world is completely impoverished in France, everyone knows that psychiatry is the poor relation of the poor relation of the poor relation of medicine. Hospitals cannot manage the entire psychiatrically unstable population, so they give them treatments and quickly put them back out. That’s the reality.”

A situation which has consequences on the legal system”in criminal courts, we have many people who have impaired discernment. The remand centers have regional medical-psychological services, because we put unstable people there.”

As for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Marc Trévidic believes “that we are putting in a lot of resources so we will be able to prevent structured attacks, on the other hand, the free electrons of jihad, the people who go in the queues, that’s dangerous”. Is it therefore impossible to regulate individual risk? “Impossible”says the judge.