By Alexandre RODDE, a lieutenant in the gendarmerie operational reserve and a researcher specializing in terrorism and mass killings issues

"While the global Covid-19 pandemic has afflicted more than two million people worldwide, the western security situation remains a concern. In France, domestic security forces are engaged in multiple fronts : crisis management within institutions, enforcing the lockdown rules, issuing fines to offendersand carrying out their daily missions...While they have to deal with lockdown-related issues (domestic violence, riots in detention facilities in particular), they must face every situation with a reduced number of personnel while taking into account the risks of infection. In this difficult context, the terrorist threat remains high, as shown by the attack in Romans-sur-Isère in which a radicalized individual killed two people with a knife and injured five others. (...)"

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