The neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik, a professor at the University of South Toulon-Var, worked on the psychology of terrorism, including meeting with men convicted of terrorist acts in Algeria. It analyzes the spring of reactions after the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden, both as victims of terrorism on the part of al-Qaida recruits.
The cover of Time magazine exposed in the streets of New York, Monday, May 2 AP can understand the reaction of Americans and relatives of victims to kill Bin Laden is a punishment that relieves, but justice was not done. There was no trial. We could not make it clear to Bin Laden that he had committed a crime immense.
I do not believe in the cathartic role, because the pleasure of revenge only results in a cycle of violence. After the Second World War in France, very few survivors of deportees, prisoners have sought revenge. The majority, like the Tutsi of Rwanda, were mostly subsided after the trial, particularly after the trial Eichamnn in 1961.
Adolf Eichmann was hanged, but even if he had not been executed, I think the victims of Nazism would still have been allayed after the trial. In the case of Osama bin Laden, there is no justice, no explanation is a vendetta, a settling of accounts. Barack Obama has just killed the revered leader of the terrorists.
This act may call the revenge of the worshipers of Osama bin Laden. They'll feel galvanized. Criticize the guru provokes hostility; kill the guru provokes despair and hatred. We have entered a cycle of violence that prevents the resolution of problems. When doing psychiatric assessments with terrorists, when you get to catch them, we realize that people are initially balanced, good students and educated, often graduates, but whose existence has no meaning.
They are desperate, they get bored and find a passion in terrorism, which leads them into a spiral of violence. They fall in love with a guru they will love. They are looking for a passion, and once they are hired, they begin to hate and hate. They see some of their friends wounded, killed, and the cycle of violence has begun.
Their passion drives them to action and prevents them from thinking. Very often, only after having taken the path of violence they learn the theory that legitimizes terrorism. Interview by Mathilde Gérard 
The cover of Time magazine exposed in the streets of New York, Monday, May 2 AP can understand the reaction of Americans and relatives of victims to kill Bin Laden is a punishment that relieves, but justice was not done. There was no trial. We could not make it clear to Bin Laden that he had committed a crime immense.
I do not believe in the cathartic role, because the pleasure of revenge only results in a cycle of violence. After the Second World War in France, very few survivors of deportees, prisoners have sought revenge. The majority, like the Tutsi of Rwanda, were mostly subsided after the trial, particularly after the trial Eichamnn in 1961.
Adolf Eichmann was hanged, but even if he had not been executed, I think the victims of Nazism would still have been allayed after the trial. In the case of Osama bin Laden, there is no justice, no explanation is a vendetta, a settling of accounts. Barack Obama has just killed the revered leader of the terrorists.
This act may call the revenge of the worshipers of Osama bin Laden. They'll feel galvanized. Criticize the guru provokes hostility; kill the guru provokes despair and hatred. We have entered a cycle of violence that prevents the resolution of problems. When doing psychiatric assessments with terrorists, when you get to catch them, we realize that people are initially balanced, good students and educated, often graduates, but whose existence has no meaning.
They are desperate, they get bored and find a passion in terrorism, which leads them into a spiral of violence. They fall in love with a guru they will love. They are looking for a passion, and once they are hired, they begin to hate and hate. They see some of their friends wounded, killed, and the cycle of violence has begun.
Their passion drives them to action and prevents them from thinking. Very often, only after having taken the path of violence they learn the theory that legitimizes terrorism. Interview by Mathilde Gérard
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