How to respond to the Paris attacks
16 November 2015 | In the Media
Fighting those responsible for the attacks in the French capital “requires a well-thought-out, highly structured and diplomatically worked-out strategy,” Senén Florensa, executive president of the IEMed, told El Suplement de Catalunya ràdio. “A primary response would be counterproductive given how Western interventions in the Middle East have turned against it in recent years.”
Florensa believes that the only hope to stop these attacks is for the major world powers to agree to end the conflicts in the Middle East. He also believes that Saudi Arabia or Iran need to be pressured to stop funding and stimulating the spiral of violence in the region, especially in the case of the war in Syria, the origin of Daesh radicalism.
Lurdes Vidal, head of the Arab and Mediterranean world department of the IEMed, in a statement to the newspaper ARA, stated that Daesh “wants a clash of civilizations”, a polarization between them in both the Middle East and the Middle East world. Vidal also warned of the negative consequences of the attacks for the management of the refugee crisis.
Following Hollande’s statements to the French Assembly, where he claimed that France and the world are at war with Daesh, Vidal has warned that the measures proposed by the French President, apart from “making things more complicated for terrorists, can strain the coexistence between the social diversity of France and Europe “.
In addition to participating in Catalunya Ràdio, Florensa has also participated in special news programs on 8TV and RAC1 about the attacks in Paris.
Interview with Senén Florensa on “El Suplement” on Catalunya Ràdio