Gérald Darmanin unveiled an anti-terrorism action plan to confront the “Islamist and jihadist movement” before and during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
An “action plan” to strengthen the fight against terrorism. A few weeks before the Olympic Games, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, sent a message to the prefects, to explain his strategy before and during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In this circular, the objective is to tighten vigilance on the 5,000 people already actively monitored due to their registration in the report processing file for the prevention of terrorist radicalization. Radical profiles like those leaving prison could benefit from “the scale of the event and its media overexposure”, wrote the Minister of the Interior.
This plan, led by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), calls for “reinforced vigilance of all actors responsible for fighting terrorism as well as their full mobilization”. Invited to seek, “for any objective” related to anti-terrorism, the “possibility of an obstacle measure, whatever its nature”, the prefects must “favor” the use of “ judicial obstruction” with the opening of investigations by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office in the event of a “proven threat” of attack.
This strategy of “judicialization” is also “encouraged” for all so-called common law offenses, including those unrelated to the terrorist threat, such as child pornography or drug trafficking. The prefects are also called upon to put in place OQTFs (obligations to leave French territory) “as soon as an irregularity is noted” for radicalized foreign people registered with the FSPRT. Islamist terrorist prisoners (TIS) benefiting from a modified sentence outside prison will also be more closely monitored in order to reincarcerate them in the event of “failure to fulfill their obligations”.
A prefect of Île-de-France, contacted by Le Parisien, speaks of “a blow of pressure to the entire processing chain”. “The prefects, but also and above all the national and local intelligence services which must propose almost systematic measures for each case,” he explains.
