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French intelligence ‘doctored files’ to cover up failings over Islamic jihad murder of priest

Jan 6, 2018 6:07 am By Robert Spencer

“The agent who uncovered the worrying message informed his superiors of what he considered an imminent threat and advised them to inform the General Direction of Interior Security, the French equivalent of MI5. However, his written warnings went unanswered and senior officers at the Paris Police Prefecture Intelligence Unit were away at the time.”

Yes, why should they have been working harder? Why should they have paid any attention to this? It’s a religion of peace!

“French intelligence ‘doctored files’ to cover up failings over Islamist murder of priest,” by Henry Samuel, Telegraph, January 5, 2018 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

French spies doctored files to cover up failings that resulted in jihadists murdering a priest in his church, according to French reports.

Claims that agents post-dated documents to cover their blunders have cast a fresh spotlight on counterterrorism agencies in the wake of over a string of terror attacks that have left 239 people dead in France since 2015.

Red tape and a battle of egos between intelligence managers are costing lives, according to the report published by Mediapart, the investigative news website, which conducted a six-month investigation into the blunders.

On July 26, 2016, Islamists Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean burst into a church in the small town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy and slit the throat of Jacques Hamel, the 85-year-old priest, in front of four parishioners. Police shot dead the pair as they left the church.

However, it now appears that five days previously an agent at the Paris Police Prefecture Intelligence Unit had come across an encrypted channel on Telegram, a favoured messaging service with terrorists, containing a message from a certain @Jayyed boasting that “I haven’t been uncovered”.

@Jayyed was in fact Kermiche, who then posted a video on the channel claiming that he gave lessons in a mosque in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

In one message he urged attacks on churches and said that with a knife one could “cut off two or three heads” and create “carnage”.

A subsequent police report noted that the comments “clearly pointed towards a jihadist profile turned in an explicit manner towards the Islamic State organisation”.

The agent who uncovered the worrying message informed his superiors of what he considered an imminent threat and advised them to inform the General Direction of Interior Security, the French equivalent of MI5.

However, his written warnings went unanswered and senior officers at the Paris Police Prefecture Intelligence Unit were away at the time.

Officers cited by Mediapart said that after the murder, the agent was asked to post-date his notes and erase his computer’s browser history to ensure that the blunder went unnoticed. But he omitted to erase the original date of the document from one of the computer files….

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  1. LB says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 6:25 am

    “after the murder, the agent was asked to post-date his notes and erase his computer’s browser history to ensure that the blunder went unnoticed. But he omitted to erase the original date of the document from one of the computer files….”

    So not only is the French intelligence complicit in enabling jihadists, they are also incompetent to cover it up properly…

    • gungfugilman says

      Jan 6, 2018 at 6:44 am

      they are like the Keystone Cops, but not remotely funny at all, just sad.

      • mortimer says

        Jan 6, 2018 at 9:21 am

        French police have very wide powers to use against terrorists, if they will pay attention.

        The ideology of JIHADISM will not sleep in France unless the French government creates protocols for deprogramming Muslims right out of Islam. Islam cannot be separated from JIHADISM which is the central activity of Islam, more important than prayer.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jan 6, 2018 at 12:20 pm

      If bungling Law Enforcement cannot protect the people, the people need to protect themselves!

      Arm the French! Pistols and Pitchforks!

      To the Bastille!!!!

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Jan 6, 2018 at 12:30 pm

        I totally agree, CRUSADER, our govts have no intention of protecting us, so we need to take steps to protect ourselves. The French suffer under heavy censorship, but people are waking up. It’s a pity the Bastille no longer exists. Guess we’re going to have to find somewhere else to incarcerate the traitors who allowed the catastrophe to happen.

      • Guy Forester says

        Jan 6, 2018 at 5:10 pm

        Pistols and Pitchforks?

        The jihadists no doubt have access to RPG’s, C4, full auto AK’s, and Stinger like MANPADS. I recommend that if the French people really want to clean up the mess and clear out the jihadists, they better get up gunned. I think their government has failed them.

        The French people will fail themselves if they continue to vote in the same lame politicos. But then, I am of the opinion that 60% of the voters could vote for Le Pen, and the count would show 60% for whatever anointed leftist stooge was running for office. Even for dogcatcher.

  2. StellaSaidSo says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 6:30 am

    Quel surprise…NOT.

    France might have stood a chance, had Le Pen won the 2017 election.

    If you haven’t seen Paris, do it soon, before the lights go out.

  3. Jayell says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 6:31 am

    How many muslims or/and their sympathesizers are in the French law enforcement and security agencies?

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 6, 2018 at 6:57 am

      Probably the same proportion as everywhere else in the Western world – too damn many, and increasing as the ‘good guys’ resign due to impossible working conditions (eg as in Sweden), and ‘affirmative action’ programs (which is how the Somali killer of Justine Damond was able to become a cop). What is especially alarming is the Islamic infiltration of the security industry.

  4. Kay says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 8:50 am

    At the very least we must learn from our errors.

  5. Eddie dee says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 9:28 am

    Sorry, there is NO moral way to solve this issue. WHY?

    There exist too many MORAL people who would not

    commit such a SIN of killing evil.

    Remember, the lord had a boat built a few years ago to

    solve this same issue.

    ALSO REMEMBER THE LORD FAILED.

    Those made in his image had no balls

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jan 6, 2018 at 10:45 pm

      “THE LORD FAILED”

      i’m no comprende there fella

      ?

    • boakai ngombu says

      Jan 7, 2018 at 8:00 am

      no balls?

      being remade in His image, the church expanded and, despite various attempts to extinguish it and memory of it, faithful remain … in large numbers and many places people attempt kindness and compassion

      evil has been proven inept to achieve righteousness; it can only produce the likes of SHARIA

  6. Bill says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 9:31 am

    This is not shocking. It is expected. The entire French government and the EU are dedicated to undermining Western culture and enabling Jihad invasion. Covering up facts, hiding evidence and destroying evidence that would reveal the plan is part of executing it.

    Nothing will come of this.

  7. Yogi says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 11:15 am

    France in 10 years will be completely done , it’s already running by Islamists extremes, they doing I this country whatever they like , beacuse government always..

  8. WPM says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 11:37 am

    The creation of a two tier society for laws ,common decency and reasonable human behavior Islam gets a free ride on anything goes murder, rape pillage ,and mayhem to not offended the political correct gods that run western governments. The first tier {non Moslems} that accept a society of laws, rules , work, the golden rule ,have to pay threw taxes to support these human parasites .

  9. CRUSADER says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 12:17 pm

    “Shocked!
    ….Shocked, Louis, that this goes on around here!”

    There will be Hell to pay for certain souls.

  10. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 2:54 pm

    “Red tape and a battle of egos”

    This pretty much covers French politics since WW2, the latter being a large part of why France decided to align itself with the Middle East rather than with the US.

    I say that as one who likes France a great deal.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 3:06 pm

    French intelligence ‘doctored files’ to cover up failings over Islamic jihad murder of priest
    ………………….

    Utterly appalling–but this does not surprise.

  12. Thomas Kimball says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 3:40 pm

    I’m sorry for laughing but the phrase French intelligence just kills me and conjures up memories of Peter Sellers as inspector Clouseau in the old pink panther series and at this point their have been so many terrorist murders that I’m becoming desensitized! It’s like telling me it’s going to snow in December in New England! Or that the government knew a terrorist event was about to occur and did nothing to stop it, or after it occurred they’re not sure of the motive!

  13. Dapto says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 4:44 pm

    The french have always been scumbags why should this instance be any different

    • Thomas Kimball says

      Jan 6, 2018 at 4:54 pm

      Remember what General Patton said”Id rather have a battalion of Nazis in front of me than a battalion of French behind me”nuff said!

      • eduardo odraude says

        Jan 7, 2018 at 6:42 pm

        Throughout history there have been very brave and brilliant French. Let’s be a bit more balanced here. Reserve the ire for Islamic totalitarianism, not for what’s left of our allies.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 7, 2018 at 6:53 pm

          Agreed, Eduardo.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 6, 2018 at 11:01 pm

      I don’t believe this poor priest as a “scumbag”.

  14. Guy Forester says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 5:18 pm

    If you read how poorly the French military was led in the 3 wars they had with Germany, it probably explains how France got its reputation and ended up where it is today. To say that the lives of so many valiant and patriotic men were squandered would be a gross understatement. A nation cannot recover when so much talent and so much good genetics are destroyed.

    That gets us to today’s story.

    Gee, I am shocked, utterly shocked I tell you. Call inspector Clouseau, he will get to the bottom of it right away!

  15. Lydia Church says

    Jan 6, 2018 at 11:45 pm

    Most European countries’ leaders have failed their people.
    Except for Hungary and Poland!

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jan 7, 2018 at 6:52 pm

      Hungary is resisting Islam, and such resistance is all to the good. Yet Hungary in some ways seems to have become a bit like a dictatorship. A Hungarian friend tells me, as an example, about a man who tried to become an independent electoral candidate in Hungary (that is, not a candidate of the ruling party), and consequently got fired from his job, while his wife was informed by the government that her business would be subject to an aggressive audit. My Hungarian friend also tells me that the ruling party owns or controls 95% of the media in Hungary. Apparently the internet remains free there.

      These points are anecdotal only, of course, and I don’t know how accurate or representative they are. But perhaps this is a side of the Hungarian story we should not entirely lose sight of.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 7, 2018 at 6:59 pm

        Well, this is disturbing. I hope this is not the case–but it would not entirely surprise.

  16. s says

    Jan 7, 2018 at 4:22 pm

    to be sure… the Priest was an Islamophobe… Racist… White Supremist… not giving enough love to Islamists …. ain’t that correct All you CommunIslamist LeftGlobalists?

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