case study

• CASE STUDY: Nice Attack 

  • ‘Horror’ (EuroNews) of the 2016 Bastille Day attack that killed 86 people and injured 458.
  • The man driving that ploughed a truck into crowds was claimed by the terrorist organisation ISIS. 
  • The mass killing was part of a wave of jihadist terror attacks across France.
• ‘The Threat level is still very substantial in France right now and we’ve had several attacks over the past months perpetrated by lone actors’ (Euro News)
• • ‘The Nice attack was not that sophisticated….a very simple tactic’. 
  • While the terror threat in France remains high, it has taken on different forms over the years. 
  • On its website, the agency known as DGSI describes an "endogenous threat" from "individuals radicalised alone, notably on the Internet”
  • In total, the Islamic State group recruited over 1,400 volunteers from France. Moreover, notedly, in previous years, ‘most of the attacks were perpetrated by French citizens’. 
• • While the jihadist threat has evolved over the past years, so has France's anti-terror arsenal.
  • a new structure for the domestic intelligence agency was created in 2014, it had 3,200 agents compared to 4,700 in 2021
  • In 2021, an anti-terrorism bill was under examination, calling on measures of released terrorist prisoners being supervised, and the adoption of an ‘algorithm’ technique to detect threats while extending it to web addresses.