“‘There are a lot of questions, and there is a lot of anger,’ said Yves Lefebvre, a union official. ‘The police are asking, “How on earth could this have happened?”‘”
Seriously? The answer to that question couldn’t possibly be easier. This happened because all the warning signs — the defense of the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre, his arrest on domestic violence charges (cf. the Qura’n’s sanction of wife-beating, 4:34), his shunning of women — were ignored by authorities who were dogmatically determined to avoid charges of “Islamophobia” and not appear “racist.” They also weren’t trained to recognize those warning signs in the first place, because such training would itself be “Islamophobic.”
“In Paris Knife Attack, Police Ask How They Missed a Killer in Their Midst,” by Adam Nossiter, New York Times, October 5, 2019 (thanks to Kamala):
…At a news conference on Saturday, France’s antiterrorism prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, said the killer, a 45-year-old computer technician who worked in police intelligence, had tried to justify to a colleague the killings in January 2015 at the magazine Charlie Hebdo and had done the same for other radical Islamist killings.
The disturbing statements he made after a dozen people were killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris were reported to higher-ranking officers, a police union official said Saturday, but nothing was done.
The fact that this and other potential clues — including a video the killer posted on Facebook that imitated throat-cutting — were missed by the police administration that surrounded him, at the heart of an organization dedicated to fighting terrorism, has shocked the ranks of the national police….
…The killer also had contacts with “several individuals suspected of being part of the Salafist movement,” Mr. Ricard said, referring to an ultraconservative movement within Sunni Islam.
The prosecutor also pointed to dozens of religious-themed text messages the killer exchanged with his wife shortly before the killings, suggesting these showed he adhered to a “radical vision of Islam.”
In addition, the killer had stopped having “certain kinds of contacts with women,” the prosecutor said, without specifying.
The information now surfacing is creating an uproar among the French police, several union officials said Saturday.
“There are a lot of questions, and there is a lot of anger,” said Yves Lefebvre, a union official. “The police are asking, ‘How on earth could this have happened?’”…
Mr. Castaner told reporters after the attack that the “behavior” of Mikaël H. had not posed “problems.”…
On his Facebook page…are exhortational Muslim videos, films about suffering in Syria and the Palestinian territories, and a curious video in which a line of smiling men tap one another on the shoulder and trace a line across their neighbors’ throats, in imitation of throat-cutting. That video was posted in June. At least one victim’s throat was slashed on Thursday.
People in the attacker’s neighborhood of low-rises in the northeastern Paris suburb of Gonesse said he was “nice,” “simple” and “someone who liked people.”
In 2009 he was brought before a local court on domestic violence charges but ultimately received no penalty, the prosecutor said….