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This article discusses the legacy of Michel Foucault in relation to the current political situation. The second part highlights the key role of his attempt to define a dispositif of security in the 1977-78 lecture course, 'Security, Territory, Population' and the various interpretations given after his death. The third part introduces Professor Bigo's own research on the subject, which emphasises the multifocal construction of 'suspects' by various transnational guilds of security professionals who systematise profiling and weak correlations as an alternative method of seeking the truth about causalities and facts attributed to an individual. This allows a 'preventive' violence to be reenacted in the name of scientific predictions of a future so deadly that it is necessary to act violently now in order to prevent even more violence.