Laurent Nunez, the national coordinator of intelligence. – Romain GAILLARD / POOL / SIPA
“Two attacks terrorists Sunni Islamists were foiled in 2017 and 33 since 2017 ”, said Sunday Laurent Nuñez , national intelligence coordinator. Guest of Major meeting Europe1 / CNews / Les Echos , Laurent Nuñez gave no indication of the nature of these two foiled terrorist projects. He stressed that “Sunni Islamist terrorism” was “a priority threat”. It is “endogenous” and “increasingly difficult to detect”. “The passage to the act is done extremely quickly”, he continued, citing the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty last October. Laurent Nuñez underlined a “common point” between the last three attacks attributed to this movement (against the former premises of Charlie Weekly Asked about monitoring of those convicted of terrorism who should be released from prison in 2020, Laurent Nuñez affirmed that they will be subject to “administrative obligations” (regular check-in, ban from appearing in such and such a place…). He estimated that they would be “33 at 70 ”in this situation in 2021 while, according to him, “500 convicted of terrorism “and” 500 common law detainees who have radicalized “are currently in prison. Five ultra-right attacks foiled since 2017
Concerning the ultra-right, he mentioned “five attacks” since foiled 2017 and worried about a “rise in power of the supremacists and survivalism ”. It is estimated that the ultra right represents 1. to 1. 500 people, which Laurent Nuñez has not denied. Regarding the ultra-left, which represents 2 to 3. people, he evaluated between “70 at 200 »the number of damages (burnt pylons, etc.) that can be attributed to it in 2020.