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The attacks that have regularly hit France since 2012 have been met with successive laws, culminating in the state of emergency that the government has been seeking to write into constitutional law and which would, de facto, narrow the field of individual and public liberties as the price to pay for national security. Despite these measures, their accompanying warmongering messages and the infallible political support for intelligence agencies, the security policy has not succeeded in curbing the triple phenomenon of “radicalization,” young people’s departures for Syria and terrorist attacks within France. And despite its alleged ineffectiveness, public opinion polls have remained favorable to this policy. This article discusses this situation as an Orwellian paradox.