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by Soeren Kern
• February 26, 2017 at 5:00 am
- The report
implies that deradicalization, either in specialized centers or in
prisons, does not work because most Islamic radicals do not want to
be deradicalized.
- Although France
is home to an estimated 8,250 hardcore Islamic radicals, only 17
submitted applications and just nine arrived. Not a single resident
has completed the full ten-month curriculum.
- By housing
Islamists in separate prison wings, they actually had become more
violent because they were emboldened by "the group
effect," according to Justice Minister Jean-Jacques Urvoas.
- "Deradicalizing
someone does not happen in six months. These people, who have not
been given an ideal and who have clung to Islamic State's ideology,
are not going to get rid of it just like that. There is no 'Open
Sesame.'" — Senator Esther Benbassa.
- "The
deradicalization program is a total fiasco. Everything must be
rethought, everything must be redesigned from scratch." —
Senator Philippe Bas, the head of the Senate committee that
commissioned the report.
The Château de Pontourny "Center for Prevention,
Integration and Citizenship," in France. (Image source: 28 minutes -
ARTE video screenshot)
The French government's flagship program to deradicalize jihadists
is a "total failure" and must be "completely
reconceptualized," according to the initial conclusions of a
parliamentary fact-finding commission on deradicalization.
The preliminary report reveals that the government has nothing to
show for the tens of millions of taxpayer euros it has spent over the
past several years to combat Islamic radicalization in France, where 238
people have been killed in jihadist attacks since January 2015. The
report implies that deradicalization, either in specialized centers or in
prisons, does not work because most Islamic radicals do not want to be
deradicalized.
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