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All were deeply “turned upside down” by the knife attack on Salman Rushdie on Friday August 12 in New York State. In France, they would be between “30 and 50” people placed under police protection because of Islamist threats against them, as was the British writer after being targeted by an Iranian fatwa launched in 1989. Lawyer, journalist, political leader, professor… The list, known only to the police services, is changing, according to the news and the positions of each other.