“I accuse political leaders of never wanting to understand the rise of radical Islam and of deliberately ignoring it because of the electorate and ‘politically correctness’. I accuse them of allowing several municipalities to develop jihadist radicalism for years, to the point that a socialist official told me: ‘We know Molenbeek’s problem, but what do you want, it is an electorate that cannot be neglected'”.

Sept pas vers l’enfer (“Seven Steps to Hell”), the new book by Alain Chouet, the former number two of the DGSE, the powerful French counter-intelligence service, is an indictment of the European élites.