Domingo, BrunoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9209-4152 (2021) The Merah Clan. Family trajectories and transformation of the economy of violence. In : Family and Jihadism : a Socio-Anthropological Approach to the French Experience Ferret, JérômeORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2080-7162 and Khosrokhavar, Farhad (eds.) Routledge. Series “Social movements in the 21st century‎ : new paradigms” London ISBN 9781032077345

Abstract

This chapter deals with the radicalisation of Mohamed Merah, a young man who committed a series of terrorist attacks in France in 2012, in the cities of Toulouse and Montauban. It exposes a family-ecology analysis, with the aim of understanding the intersecting life trajectories of the various members of the ‘Merah clan’. It allows us to identify a series of specific sequences in the life trajectory of Merah but also of other members of the family. A focus is made on the individual and group mechanisms, particularly at the socio-familial level