Terrorist attacks in Paris: together for a democratic response – PACE hearing in Strasbourg

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2015-01-25

Following the attacks in Paris on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket and in Montrouge, what conclusions can we draw? What might our lines of enquiry be in terms of measures to be taken at governmental and legislative level and what kind of action might we contemplate taking in schools, prisons and problem neighbourhoods? Is secularism still a bastion against fundamentalism?

The Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will look into these issues at a parliamentary hearing entitled “Terrorist attacks in Paris: together for a democratic response”, to be held in Strasbourg on Monday 26 January in co-operation with the PACE Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media.

The discussion will be launched by two speakers invited by the parliamentarians specifically for the hearing – the essayist and journalist Caroline Fourest, who used to work with Charlie Hebdo and is now the editor-in-chief of the review ProChoix, and the Franco-Moroccan sociologist and essayist Driss Ajbali, who is the author of the book Violence and immigration.

This hearing will serve as the basis for an urgent debate to be held on the same subject later in the week, in the context of the PACE plenary session (26-30 January 2015).

Source: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

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