“It’s not just the problem of National Education,” says a doctor in political science

For Hugo Micheron, doctor in political science attached to CERI, specialist in terrorism, this resignation “is part of a context where national education and schools have been, since 2016, since the decline of Daesh in Iraq, the target of Daesh propaganda campaigns.” He also returns to the cases of Samuel Patty and Samuel Bernard. The school is, according to the specialist, targeted because “perceived as the temple of the transmission of republican values. It’s a trend, it’s not anecdotal.”warns the author.

“A global information war”

He invites us to ask the question of social networks at a political level: “When we see that Tik Tok is the primary source of information for 15-25 year olds and that the content, with regard to religious content, is disproportionately Salafist, we have a concern. We can add an hour of lessons, but if children spend four hours on Tik Tok, they will have very different views of what will be taught to them in class.

According to Hugo Micheron, “jihadism is also outside of attacks: it is an ideological threat through very identified channels such as hacking, social networks and emails”. “We are in a global information war which does not really speak its name,” concludes the doctor in political science.