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Homegrown extremism: What lies beneath the France shootings?

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The Toulouse shooter started out as a delinquent with self-esteem issues. François Picard’s panel looks at what made him become a jihadist who went to Afghanistan and what the impact will be on the final month of the French presidential election campaign.

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  • James COHEN, Professor of Political Science - Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle;
  • Dr Brooke ROGERS, Senior Lecturer in Risk and Terror in the Department of War Studies and co-Director of the MA in Terrorism, Security and Society, King's College London;
  • Georja CALVIN-SMITH, Journalist, France 24;
  • Eric OLANDER, France 24 Digital Media Editor.

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