Thinking clearly in a fog of complexity.
Hekinos is an independent consultancy on radicalisation and violent extremism. I design and deliver training for law enforcement, mental health professionals, social workers and educators, and I advise institutions working on prevention. Based in Paris, I work in French and English, in France and abroad.
What I do
Training
Seven training programmes on radicalisation and violent extremism, built on one shared reading framework and delivered in four formats, from a 90-minute session to a multi-session course. For law enforcement and public institutions, mental health professionals and social workers, educators, and organisations.
Advisory
Support for institutions and organisations working on prevention: reviewing existing systems, writing internal protocols, case supervision, structuring European projects and programme evaluation. Scope and deliverables are set at the start.
Open-source research
I follow extremist movements and online ecosystems through open sources. This research feeds the case material in my training and advisory work.
Recent analysis
Short case readings I publish on LinkedIn, in French. Each one keeps sourced facts and my own analysis clearly apart.
Case reading
Aubagne: the model is no longer an ideology, it is a killer
After the school attack in Aubagne, I looked at the True Crime Community, a fandom built around mass killers. My reading: aesthetics replace doctrine, and ideology sometimes comes afterwards to justify the model. The question is not whether a young person watches this content, but whether they identify, imitate and announce.
Case reading
Misogyny as the engine, not the backdrop
On the CVLT case tried in Paris: the group is described as neo-Nazi and nihilist. My reading is that misogyny organises who dominates and who is targeted. Looking for a doctrine misses the case. Looking at the relationship to women explains it.
Analysis
Nihilism and hybrid profiles
Nihilism has long lived inside violent ideologies. What changes is that it no longer needs them. Across movements, what circulates is not doctrine but aesthetics and an emotional economy. The operational question is not which ideology, but what relationship to violence.
Memberships
European Union Knowledge Hub on the Prevention of Radicalisation
