Europe faced with terrorist threat

The editorialist Gérard Dupuy considers that "for France, the 'al-qaedisation' of Algerian Islamist terrorism cannot reinforce the diffuse threat that is already threatening it. It has already been subjected to certain collateral exactions of Algerian terrorism and it is still considered a potential target by Al-Qaeda. There is no magic solution. The humble police prevention that has so far given positive results should be held in place. ... If the terrorist bombings in Algeria have any effect on the French election campaign, it will only be very mechanical, playing into the hands of the likes of Sarkozy and Le Pen who have used fear as one of their favourite topics. This is why reactions have been tempered, everybody being aware of the fallibility of the safety net. To exaggerate the threat would be to act as terrorists want us to, without doing anything at all to stop them."

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