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Muslim beats up French cameraman filming footage outside mosque

Jun 7, 2019 11:30 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A France 3 TV cameraman who was busy shooting background footage outside a mosque for a report about the mosque’s imam, jailed for two years for helping migrants cross the English Channel, was violently attacked by a member of the mosque. The cameraman who was on public property was beaten up, dragged into the mosque and had his press ID photographed by another Muslim in order to threaten him afterwards. The cameraman is now on medical leave after police managed to rescue him.

How dare this infidel humiliate Muslims by taking photographs of a mosque and reporting on the criminality of its Imam!  Non believers are “the vilest of animals in Allah’s sight.” (Quran 8:55)

In Islam, “total allegiance and love are only to be given within the Islamic community, and rejection, hate, and enmity against the other is commanded, based upon Qur’anic foundations”. Infidels are so inferior according to Islamic law that truth and justice take a back seat; an unbeliever is forbidden to even testify against a Muslim.  The French cameraman was an affront to sharia principles and was roughed up for it.

Islamic supremacy and thuggery are increasingly becoming a tolerated part of Western democracies. The mosque aggressor was not even detained.

“TV cameraman attacked while filming outside mosque in northern France”, Reporters Without Borders, June 6, 2019:

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the violent attack that a member of a mosque in northern France’s Normandy region carried out against a France 3 TV cameraman to prevent him from shooting background footage outside for a report about the mosque’s imam, who was on trial.

The attack took place on 3 June in Petit-Couronne, a small town near the city of Rouen. After a violent altercation in front of the mosque, the assailant dragged the cameraman inside and kept him there by force until the police rescued him. In the course of the fight, the journalist’s camera was damaged and he lost his press badge, which was picked up and photographed by another man.

“We strongly condemn this unacceptable act of violence at a time of widespread mistrust of journalists, who are often targeted while just doing their job to report the news,” said Pauline Adès-Mével, the head of RSF’s European Union and Balkans desk.

“This attempt to intimidate and prevent a journalist from filming on the public highway and the fact that his press ID was photographed in order to threaten him afterwards must be condemned with the utmost firmness.”

The police took the assailant before an investigating judge, who placed him under investigation on suspicion of “theft with violence” but did not detain him. The cameraman, who filed a complaint against his assailant, has been given five days’ medical leave.

A court in Boulogne-Sur-Mer has meanwhile sentenced the mosque’s imam to two years in prison…

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  1. rubiconcrest says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 11:44 am

    An example of the Islamic playbook in action. Violent intimidation of all actions that might negatively affect the ‘faith’. Tactics such as this should carry much higher criminal penalties but they don’t. As a result the intimidation continues and is a growing problem.

    • Richard says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 5:20 pm

      Exactly. It’s like a dog or a child. They are constantly pushing to see just how much they can get away with, and if they do, it’s on to a higher level. This sort of thing needs to be stopped – and stopped hard – as soon as it begins, or it just gets worse and worse until it can’t be stopped at all and we can.

    • Frederick King says

      Jun 8, 2019 at 4:05 am

      Keep bringing in more. Keep paying welfare for them to breed like rats . hey will surely have a “reformation?” Just like the inquisitions ended ? just like the christians stopped burning “infidels ” at the stake, a few hundred years ago ? Right ? Should Aztecs, Incas, and Druids be allowed to start doing large scale human sacrifices again ?

      • Don Gaetano says

        Jun 8, 2019 at 5:42 am

        Have to remind everyone Fred. Burning infidels at the stake or witches or adulterers or pinning scarlet letters on people…or feeling superior to people outside the faith….is nowhere in the New Testament. The inquisitions as well would not have been condoned by Christ.
        Christianity cannot be legislated, it is a personal choice by each autonomous individual or it is not genuine in that individual.
        The Christian Reformation, was an attempt to return much more to first principles and away from added man-made rules that corrupted the original teachings. Not perfect as absolutely nothing on this earth done by humans is, but a good direction with good results world wide.
        The number of changed lives for the very much better would stagger you if we could get an accurate number on them….not just short term either, life long.
        And if its all a myth as I assume you think it is, then it is one with great value for humanity, and the misuse of it does not negate the good done.

  2. Savvy Kafir says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    It’s too bad someone in that TV camera crew wasn’t carrying a gun. Not so easy to do in France, I know; but that needs to be changed.

    More realistically, everyone in that crew should have been carrying pepper spray. And not the little dinky ones, either — but something big enough to neutralize multiple attackers. And folding knives as well, in case the savages resort to blades. And some sort of legal-to-carry impact weapon, like tactical lights.

    People need to stop being easy prey for the Allah junkies. When Muslims attack, they need to be met with overwhelming force.

    • WPM says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 1:13 pm

      In many European cities (London) for example you cannot carry any kind of knives unless they are being used directly for work in a locked tool box. It is could be the same for mace or pepper spray someone here on the board from Europe could inform us of the laws .

      • Sara says

        Jun 7, 2019 at 2:17 pm

        It probably is because pepper spray is illegal in Canada. When I was a teenager everyone used to get it in the states, our parents did in case anything happened walking home. I’m very confused as to the issue Muslims seem to have with filming or pictures. They seem to be very opposed to it. Why?

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 7, 2019 at 11:20 pm

          They don’t want Infidels to know what they are up to.

        • carpediadem says

          Jun 7, 2019 at 11:30 pm

          Scrutiny of Islam and Mohammed by infidels is against sharia.

        • J D.S says

          Jun 8, 2019 at 10:07 am

          ORSY GOR THIS CAMERMAN and his family.
          Until our government officials wake up to the fact that Islam is as evil as evil can get. (THEIR EVILNESS MAY NOT SHOW UP IN A PHYSIC SENSE ALL THE TIME)I but it is there underneath and can be awakened in an instant.
          Many people think that God and satan do not exist..THEY DO! There has been evil and good in the world ever since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. Some think that women are of low stature , especially in the Muslim world but just think on this a woman led the world into sin, but man was an accomplice as well.
          Out government officials MUST, and soon, throw out their fest speaking out against muslims who follow Islamic teachings, shut down mosques that in any way teach any form of terrorism. FEAR is still working in islam.

        • Charles Lutz says

          Jun 10, 2019 at 6:53 pm

          Sara, deeply shameful for the employer of the unfortunate photog in their not providing body-guard protection. Bosses don’t care !

      • Watto35 says

        Jun 7, 2019 at 2:31 pm

        It’s quite simple – you don’t carry anything! Even if you are carrying a pair of nail-clippers or a plastic knife you are liable to spend a few years in prison. As for mace or pepper spray even if you can find any you are likely to spend a long time in prison. The Americans have no clue how tightly we are controlled.

        • Savvy Kafir says

          Jun 7, 2019 at 3:26 pm

          Pepper spray is legal in France.

        • Paul J says

          Jun 9, 2019 at 1:18 am

          Getting to the stage where it is better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6. Every human has a birthright to protect them selves in whatever way they see fit. Weapon laws only protect/facilitate those with criminal intent to use them not the victims of those criminals.

        • Carol the 1st says

          Jun 9, 2019 at 11:27 pm

          “suspicions of ‘Theft with violence'” – don’t let inspector Clouseau trip over any grudges unbecoming to Islam. DO put the cart before the horse!

      • Savvy Kafir says

        Jun 7, 2019 at 3:39 pm

        Even in London, you can carry a pocket knife, as long as the blade is no more than 3″ long, and as long as the blade does not lock open. Some makers of tactical folding knives make knives designed specifically to be UK-legal, such as the Spyderco UK Penknife (available from Amazon).

        One of those, kept really sharp, could do a lot of damage to an attacker, and would be much more effective than bare fists. (Also more threatening, because most people don’t want to get sliced up.)

        Small tactical lights, designed to be used as impact weapons (also available from Amazon), are legal everywhere. Better to stay away from the ones with the jagged bezels, though, if you live in a weapons-adverse locality. These simple, sturdy lights are also much more effective than a fist — and are very useful as lights.

        In some parts of Europe (like France), pepper spray is still legal to carry.

        • L. D. Haney says

          Jun 7, 2019 at 10:54 pm

          I told my English wife, that if we go back to the U.K., to finish out our lives, I will be carrying a cane with a sword in it….I’m 74 years old, and I quit fighting about twenty years ago….I’d rather be judged by twelve, than carried by six…

        • Savvy Kafir says

          Jun 8, 2019 at 6:13 pm

          I agree, L.D. Far better to be judged by 12 than to be carried by 6. I think more people need to take that attitude — especially in countries like Britain, where self-defense has virtually been outlawed by a tyrannical government. No government has any right to do that to its people.

        • Paul J says

          Jun 9, 2019 at 1:24 am

          LD Haney, I just wrote that “tried by 12 than carried by 6” line myself, then saw you had wrote it 2 days earlier. Well said mate, take care and I hope you are never in a position where you have to make that choice. God Bless old son.

  3. David Grisez says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 12:34 pm

    The Muslims involved in this attack on this cameraman should be arrested and charged with assault and kidnapping. Muslims must be subject to the laws of the nation they are in. They can not have their own separate Sharia Law system.

    • Victoria says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 1:53 pm

      You are talking about Europe where it seems most European men and law enforcement have become cowards and enablers. I have yet to read why the citizens of these countries aren’t demonstrating and demanding accountability from their leaders and why, when these leaders refuse to act they are still in office.?

      • Warmac9999 says

        Jun 7, 2019 at 2:54 pm

        They are subjects not citizens.

      • carpediadem says

        Jun 7, 2019 at 11:32 pm

        Because Europe decades ago allied with the Islamic nations, that’s why all this rubbish is going on.

      • Charles Lutz says

        Jun 10, 2019 at 6:59 pm

        Victoria, Why are citizens helpless ? Simple: because the Ruling Class rules… and terrorizes.

    • Lilith Wept says

      Jun 8, 2019 at 1:26 am

      You notice in this article the Moslem was “ not detained” he didn’t even see the inside of a jail for nearly killing a man in what was Assault .

      Moslems are getting a free pass….if ANY other religion or group did the things moslems do, they would be arrested and sentenced to Jail!
      So why are moslems doing what they want, when they want.. with everything?
      Why are the police ( in the UK) urging the owner of the Trump balloon to press barges against Based Amy who cut it and deflated it. The owner said he would press charges and the original police romAmy she was de arrested and could go….
      Then the superior police came a started pressured the owner, put Amy in a police wagon …..Not just asking if he wanted to press charges, but trying to bully him into pressing charges! And when he wouldn’t, the police said Based Amy was arrested for public drinking …no breathalyzer test , the cops didn’t smell alcohol on her…..false charge! She doesn’t drink at all.
      The cops are siding with the liberal left ,,moslem sympathizers and moslems .

      But all politicians can’t all be afraid of Moslem violence if they push back against what they want, or arrest and perspire moslems who breakthe laws……like all the moslems breaking the law when they do the massive praying in public, and block streets, building, sidewalks public offices, shops and businesses……
      If Christians, Jews, Hindu, Sikh did that , we’d be arrested!!!,

  4. Antiislamicman says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    This is just a taster of what’s to come once Islam gets out of control. It’s half way there now. This is a slow build up to a war caused by open borders and the EUSSR

    • Rufolino says

      Jun 8, 2019 at 3:21 am

      Too true ! This dangerous game will lead to a catastrophe in Europe.

  5. KRJ says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 12:55 pm

    As most media outlets in France are left-leaning it wouldn’t surprise me if the cameraman was helping to make a film that defends the iman jailed for helping migrants meaning: this was going to be a pro-migrant report – If that’s the case then a big LOL and he got what a taste of what’s to come.

    • Bacherbazistan says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 7:04 pm

      A good dose of reality for them.

  6. Cicero says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 12:55 pm

    May I ask after Robert Spencer ‘s welfare?
    Is he safe? A one word response would suffice

    • Tom says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 1:02 pm

      Is anyone safe these days who dares to speak out the thuggery in Islam?

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 3:53 pm

      Yes, when is Robert Spencer returning?

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 11:44 pm

      Last I heard he is recovering, but slowly.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 9, 2019 at 9:17 pm

      From today:

      “Robert Spencer: Returning from Nowhere”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/06/robert-spencer-returning-from-nowhere

      Great news!

  7. keya says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 2:49 pm

    If a Christian or Jew knocked down a mudslim then the media won’t stop talking for days.

    • Lilith Wept says

      Jun 9, 2019 at 3:38 pm

      And moslems and the liberal leftist goverments would use it as the excuse to take away more of our freedoms and elevate moslems into a special protected group, even more than they are doing now……
      I was watching a video of a man in New Zealand and that’s whats happening there after the Christchurch killings. I think that’s been a wake up for moslems around the world. Moslems believe if one bleeds, they all do, if ones injured or insulted, then all moslems are, and should all rise up and fight…..

      I believe if there is a real push back against Islam, moslems, or if there is something like the Christchurch killings again, that all the liberal governments, will start accelerating the restriction and elimination of people’s rights, and start criminalizing Islamophobia ( especially now that there’s a working definition to go by.
      The liberal,goverments won’t need moslems pressuring them to do this, although the moslems will be screaming about it ( and most likely, enacting their own revenge violence and killing of kuffar) but the liberal goverments will do this on their own, a self censoring, a self inflicted dhimmihood.

      New Zealand signed the genocidal UN Migrant pact…..so the country will be flooded by moslems.
      This man in New Zealand just makes you tube videos against migration, expressing his opinions, protected free speech , right? Apparently not! The police cane to his house …..at first just 2….asking him “ where his head was today?” Like he was a manaic ….Then the police came in force, many police, several cars, and blocked off his wheel street. Of course this was intimidation, his neighbors saw and this was Intended to embarrass him, and create the situation where his neighbors would pressure him to shut up, silence him, and his neighbors would in effect, be policing him and his behavior……
      His family was present at the police interrogation, and this is another threat, that the police know where you live, and know you have a family…can come and disrupt your life any time they don’t like what you are saying……if you have differing opinions than the Goverment……and that the family was present is another attempt to have the family silence him….for their safety , doncha know!

      It does show how goverments fear people who publicly online speak their minds and are against this take over by the liberal leftists and Islam.

  8. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 3:52 pm

    If the Islamic fanatic held him against his will, that’s unlawful imprisonment or kidnapping or something. That thug SOB should be charged and do jail time. Thugs should be made to understand that their thuggery will be punished to the full extent of the law. If the laws are too weak, legislatures should make them tougher.

  9. Eric Jones says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 5:58 pm

    This Islamist attacker is guilty of assault, kidnap, false imprisonment and damage to the victims property. The attacker should immediately get fours years in prison.

  10. mortimer says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 6:48 pm

    Muslims are doing the equivalent of this attack to the forums of the internet. They want to remove our freedom to report what we see.

  11. Mobuyus says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    My father went to France in 42 and 44 to throw bums like this out.

  12. gravenimage says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 10:12 pm

    Muslim beats up French cameraman filming footage outside mosque.
    ………………….

    Appalling but not surprising. Muslims have also beaten up those filming in “Muslim areas”.

  13. Dawne Swift says

    Jun 8, 2019 at 11:30 am

    The really concerning thing is that he has not been charged with the offence. In other words, the police seem to be tacitly agreeing that it’s ok to do this.

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