The “tragedy” of Lunel: his home jihadists – the New Republic

The "tragedy" of Lunel: his home jihadists – the New Republic

From the town of Herault went to fight in Syria between ten and twenty young people. The Interior Minister pointed to the strength of the government.

Lunel, its Baltard halls like his athletic club, his statue Liberty and farmhouse Fourques which hosted many celebrities. Halfway between Montpellier and Nimes, this capital of the canton of 26,000 inhabitants came out of his relative anonymity in recent weeks: from here, since October, between ten and twenty young people went to fight in Syria. Six of them died there. In late January, as part of an investigation into a Jihadist thread to Syria, five people were arrested there.

“The barbarians who have perverted their religion”

On Saturday, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was Lunel to reaffirm “the great strength of the government” to terrorism, describing the ” tragedy “ of this city of the Hérault and the departure of young ” driven by a delusion, violence “.
” There will be no sanctuary for terrorists in France “, said the interior minister, a month to the day after the attack against Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the murder of twelve people.
“Today, many young people are sensitive to discourse whose aim is to get them out of the Republic. The Muslim community is important here. A minority has radicalized in recent years. I am the witness “, launched at Bernard Cazeneuve DVD mayor, Claude Arnaud.
” Islam of France is overwhelmingly a Islam of tolerance, replied Bernard Cazeneuve. We must remember these values ​​and love of these values. It mu st be said to the smallest. “
And avoid anyone having the feeling of being ” aside, put aside “, in the words of the head of state on Thursday. Urban planning is one of the ways to achieve this: Secretary of State for urban policy, Myriam El Khomri, who accompanied Bernard Cazeneuve in Lunel, Lunel promised that “would benefit from a regional program of the National Agency for Urban Renewal “ and the state ” invest several million euros in the rehabilitation of downtown “. This does not prevent the services of the Minister of Interior to continue to hunt there, as elsewhere, “the barbarians who have perverted their religion because they were ignorant” .

Moussa Coulibaly, arrested Tuesday after the stabbing of three soldiers on duty in Nice, was set for Saturday Review assassination attempts in relation to a terrorist organization and imprisoned.