

You can’t stop someone if it is just what they are thinking of doing. The person needs to do something, or start to do something (illegal).

“The second (problem) is a legal one: if someone “declares a Jihad” that is not against the law, so no offence has been committed. Going to Pakistan and to Afghanistan is not in itself a crime. “How is it possible that an extremist, known to the security services, can be out there without being arrested? Our Paris correspondent Giovanni Magi put that question to ean-Fran?�ois Daguzan, a terrorism expert and Senior Fellow with France’s Foundation for Strategic Research.” Jean-Fran?�ois Daguzan: “There are two different kinds of problems in a case like this: the first is the limitations of the French intelligence and security services, who can’t track everyone who’s bent on Jihad.
