By Alexandre RODDE, lieutenant in the gendarmerie operationnel reserve, analyst at the Gendarmerie Bureau de Lutte Anti-Terroriste, researcher specializing in terrorism and mass killing issues.

"The year 2023 showed a series of developents within the various extremist movements present in France. Despite the end of the pandemic, there is an overall upward trend in propaganda activity and violent action. Taking advantage of the growing polarization of opinion in French society, the various movements have exploited a number of crises, whether local, as in Sainte-Soline, Saint-Brévin or Annecy, national, such as the pension reform or the July riots, or international, notably linked to the Israeli Palestinian or Russian-Ukrainian conflicts. There is thus a resurgence of terrorist activity in France, but the situation differs for the three main threats - the jihadist (I), ultra-left (II) and ultra-right (III) movements - and this just a few months away from the organization of the 2024 Olympic Games."

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