HUGO Micheron is a French political scientist: a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University’s Institute for Transregional Studies, whose work focuses on the evolution of jihadism in Europe. In particular, he has examined how jihad took root and flourished in specific locations in Europe, where it was propagated by veterans of the Soviet-Afghan war and refugees from training camps for the Afghan resistance in Peshawar after these were shut down by the Pakistan government in 1992. Wherever these activists settled in Europe, hotbeds of extremist preaching sprang up, imparting their zeal to new generations reared in exile. These breeding grounds of jihad cross-fertilised, forming networks across north-western Europe while maintaining contact with the Middle East.
Laid bare – the implacable march of jihad in the UK
