The
assailant that yesterday attacked the police officers on duty at the Champs Elysées
had a long past of criminal behaviour. He spent many years in jail. And all
those who knew him a bit agree he was a deeply deranged fellow.
As we take these facts into account, we must
raise a number of questions about the workings of the penitentiary system, the
failures – or at least, the limitations – of the re-education programmes, the
inefficiency of the back-to-society policies and also the way our institutional
arrangements miss the target when it comes to deal with extremely violent
people.
All these matters need to be seriously thought through, and challenged,
if we are indeed committed to making our environment safer.
It´s
not enough just to speak about terrorism.
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