Mohamed Abdeslam keeps talking about "manipulation" for a specialist, it's dangerous because it disempowers the psychological sense

The testimony of Mohamed Abdeslam, the brother of Salah who is the most wanted man of the moment, reacted very busy since yesterday. According to him, his two brothers, related to attacks in Paris, did not radicalized. Instead, they have been manipulated.

RTL info for 13 hours, Jean-Pierre Martin and Emmanuelle Danblon, professor and researcher at the University of Brussels complotiste specialist speeches, interviews have revisionné Mohamed Abdeslam yesterday in various media.

With his lawyer, he wanted to shed light on the behavior of his two brothers, Ibrahim Salah. His explanations on their radical transformation differ from one interview to another, but the word that always comes up is "manipulation". "I am confident that my brothers were not radicalized as manysay, a- he said Sunday on the set of RTL info, but rather manipulated. It has instead served them and this may be why we have not seen radicalization because it was simply non-existent. "

Handling prevents highlight rational and proven facts, it accredits especially the victim status of the authors. "The idea that there was manipulation, and that is the cause of everything, disempowers, not at all in the legal sense, but in the psychological sense. That is to say, in the sense that we are victims, we were manipulated. And that, I think it is a very powerful psychological engine ", says Emmanuelle Banblon.

Following the attacks of Paris, young people, on social networks, in the suburbs, or in Islamist circles propagated the conspiracy theory of US services, French or Israeli, as in the aftermath of September 11 and as in the wake of attacks against Charlie Hebdo.

"After Charlie it was the next day, almost exactly the same scenario. So the first interesting thing is that the scenario is extremely consistent, as again, it clears the authors. It is urgent to train teachers to much more realistic view of what is really the argument ", also said the specialist.

Faced with these conspiracy theories that reinforce the ideology of terrorist groups eager to make every Muslim a victim, teachers have a fundamental role. In France, the Ministry of Education released this week teaching materials to all students.