Terrorisme islamique et chiffres sur l’immigration

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Viewing cable 05PARIS5539, PUTTING OUT BRUSHFIRES: FRANCE AND ISLAMIC
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S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 04 PARIS 005539

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/16/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM KISL AL MO PTER FR
SUBJECT: PUTTING OUT BRUSHFIRES: FRANCE AND ISLAMIC
EXTREMISM

REF: A. STATE 144222
¶B. PARIS 5203
¶C. PARIS 4644
¶D. 04 PARIS 2981
¶E. PARIS 4750
¶F. PARIS 1732

Classified By: POLITICAL MINISTER COUNSELOR JOSIAH ROSENBLATT, FOR REAS
ONS 1.4 B/D

¶1. (C) Summary: Through surveillance, arrests and other methods, the GOF prevents or puts out brushfires of Islamic extremism on an almost daily basis, and has been doing so for decades. According to recent press reports, the RG, France's police intelligence service, estimates that 6 million Muslims live in France, approximately 10 percent of the population.
The RG estimates that approximately 9,000 of them might be extremist. These numbers, coupled with a widespread recognition that France continues to struggle mightily to integrate its immigrant/Muslim population, provide a sober counterpoint to the past success and unquestionable capabilities of the counter-terrorism apparatus. Although in the short and medium-term, France clearly can rely on its police, security and judicial services to aggressively combat terrorism, in the long-term it must focus on giving a place to Muslims (be they first-generation immigrants, their second- and third-generation children, or the