The New Threat from the Digital Underground

In recent years, France has learned to respond to various forms of extremism. Islamist terrorism remains the greatest security threat, right-wing extremist networks are under close surveillance, and left-wing extremist violence is also in the authorities' focus. Now, a new form of radicalization is coming into view: so-called masculinist extremism. It is still a comparatively small phenomenon. But the first-time handling of an alleged attack plan inspired by the so-called Incel ideology by the French anti-terror judiciary marks a turning point. The question is no longer whether this form of ...