La France vient de promulguer une loi pour proteger la laicite et combattre le séparatisme, mais certains y voient une loi contre l’Islam. Quel est l’ampleur de la menace extremiste en France et que prévoir pour les années à venir?
Phil Gurski discute avec Alexandre Rodde, chercheur Français et consultant en sécurité intérieure.
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About my guest Alexandre Rodde
Alexandre is a security consultant specialised in terrorism and mass shootings. His work includes risk assessment, threat monitoring, and research on national security subjects.
Alexandre works with the French National Police and the French National Gendarmerie to train their tactical units to respond to terrorist events and mass shootings scenarios (40 teams trained to date).
About the host Phil Gurski
Phil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. and Programme Director for the Security, Economics and Technology (SET) hub at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute (PDI). He worked as a senior strategic analyst at CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) from 2001-2015, specializing in violent Islamist-inspired homegrown terrorism and radicalisation.
From 1983 to 2001 he was employed as a senior multilingual analyst at Communications Security Establishment (CSE – Canada’s signals intelligence agency), specialising in the Middle East.
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