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France: Muslim who killed 4 had links to jihad group, police reverse themselves, now treating murders as terrorism

Oct 4, 2019 2:13 pm By Robert Spencer

They previously ruled out the possibility of terrorism, but reality caught up with them.

“Paris police bloodbath WAS a terrorist attack, anti-terror cops believe: Knifeman who slaughtered four police colleagues has links to radical Islamist terrorist organisation, search of his computer and phone records reveals,” by Peter Allen, Mail Online, October 4, 2019 (thanks to Mick):

The French civilian police worker who murdered four colleagues with a knife has been linked to a radical Islamist terrorist organisation.

Michael Harpon, 45, was shot dead following the rampage inside the historic Paris Police Prefecture, next door to Notre Dame Cathedral, on Thursday afternoon.

His wife, Iham, was arrested soon afterwards and told detectives that Harpon had ‘heard voices’ and was ‘incoherent and suffered a dementia attack’ the night before.

Now, following a raid on the couple’s flat in the Paris suburb on Gonesse, anti-terrorist prosecutors in the French capital have opened an enquiry for ‘assassination of a public servant in relation to a terrorist enterprise, attempted assassination of a public servant in relation to a terrorist enterprise, and conspiracy in terrorism’.

Computer records and telephone intercepts have linked Harpon to a ‘radical Islamist group’ such as ISIS of Al-Qaeda, said a source close to the case.

Iham Harpon remains in custody, and is also believed to have offered evidence against her husband.

The couple were both registered as profoundly deaf, and have two children aged nine and three.

Iham is now communicating with officers through sign language, making her interview ‘very complicated,’ said the source.

Harpon, who originally came from the French overseas territory of Martinique, stabbed a senior officer and three guardians of the peace to death….

Harpon had converted to Islam 18 months ago, and his wife is also a Muslim who comes from an Arab background.

The nature of the attack corresponded with similar ones carried out by terrorists affiliated to ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

It is thought that the knifeman shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ at his flat the night before he slaughtered four of his colleagues, according to a policeman who lived in the same building as Harpon.

‘Many of those involved in similar attacks on the police have been Muslim converts influenced by radical terrorist groups,’ said the source.

Colleagues described Harpon as a previously trusted employee who had full security clearance to work in the Prefecture’s IT department….

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Filed Under: converts to Islam, Featured, France, Jihad in the West Tagged With: Gonesse, Michael Harpon, Paris, Paris Police Prefecture


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  1. somehistory says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 2:48 pm

    “heard voices’ and was ‘incoherent and suffered a dementia attack’ ”

    islam, without any logic, routinely causes one to be “incoherent”…none of them when speaking make any sense. It’s all a bunch of lies built on a gigantic lie.

    He was “deaf”…so how did he “hear voices”? And how would his wife, also “deaf,” know that he “suffered a dementia attack”? What in the world is a “dementia attack”? She needs to explain that and if she has no medical background, needs to be made to realize she is not regarded as believable.

    He was moslim. He was driven by islam to murder. His wife is moslim. She is driven by islam to lie. Her husband is beyond a need for help, so she is attempting to cover for islam.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 3:59 pm

      It is not usual to carry a ceramic knife to work.
      This was premeditated.

      • somehistory says

        Oct 4, 2019 at 4:18 pm

        the “night before” when she said he was having “a dementia attack”…means he was likely laying out his jihad terror attack. He likely told her he must get the knife on his way to work.

        He may have been “incoherent’ in his babbling about the glee at the thought of killing those with whom he had worked and who had treated him as an equal. He knew for more than a second what he was planning to do, so you are right…premeditation, terror and murder.

      • Lotus says

        Oct 5, 2019 at 12:38 am

        I didn’t know what a ceramic knife is. It’s not what I thought. I wonder how he could bring it into his office. Don’t they have security checks there?

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_knife

    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 5:22 pm

      Agree, somehistory.

      His Muslim “dementia attack” has about as much credibility as previously described Muslim “sexual emergencies”.

      • somehistory says

        Oct 4, 2019 at 5:57 pm

        +1

    • Robert_k says

      Oct 5, 2019 at 11:29 pm

      “Heard voices, was incoherent , and suffered dementia the night before” – sounds like the Prophet Muhammad.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 5, 2019 at 11:58 pm

        Yep.

  2. Dawne Swift says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 4:17 pm

    They were both deaf and yet attended the mosque, heard voices, communicated these intricate thoughts? Really? Something doesn’t add up here.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 4:21 pm

      She understands sign language.

  3. Lotus says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 5:46 pm

    From the Guardian newspaper:

    qq//The assailant, named in the media as Mickaël H, 45, was a computer scientist in the intelligence branch at police headquarters, and had worked for the police for 15 years. He had full security clearance in an office that coordinated counter-terrorist intelligence-gathering in the capital.//qq

    That’s a security breach right there. How can someone who converts to Islam continue to enjoy full secuirty clearance? He was in a position to pass on sensitive counter-terrorism information to his jihadist buddies.

  4. scherado says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 7:34 pm

    Duh

  5. Gray says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 8:05 pm

    The AFP report of this incident is full of grim, if totally unintentional, humour. Two quick excerpts:

    ‘Investigators combed an IT staffer’s computer Friday for clues as to why he stabbed four colleagues to death at police headquarters in Paris, as his wife said he had been “agitated” before going on the rampage with a kitchen knife.’

    ‘A search of the couple’s house in a low-income Paris suburb near the Charles de Gaulle airport found no evidence that the man, who converted to Islam about 18 months ago, had been driven to his criminal deed by radical religious ideology, the source added.’

    Like the cognoscenti says, ‘there ain’t no cure for stupid.’

  6. gravenimage says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 12:33 am

    France: Muslim who killed 4 had links to jihad group, police reverse themselves, now treating murders as terrorism
    ……………………..

    Better late then never, I suppose.

    • Lotus says

      Oct 5, 2019 at 12:46 am

      Man kills four people in knife attack.

      French police: We’re working on the provisional assumption that he wanted to kill some people, but we’re not sure of that yet.

    • Joe says

      Oct 5, 2019 at 7:08 am

      It still pretty much “never”. While this guy is now considered a terrorist, the threat of Islam is not.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Oct 5, 2019 at 4:33 pm

      They missed the MSM deadline of 4 hours. If you can’t prove it’s terrorism before that time is up, it doesn’t go in the terrorism category. It becomes a forgotten event.

  7. Pete says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 6:25 am

    Of course they reversed themselves. The muzzie attacked and killed 4 of their own. Of course it had to be terrorism.

  8. Peter WF says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 7:46 am

    Is this a sign the landscape is changing for definitions of muslim attacks?

  9. Phil Copson says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 8:10 am

    The point here is that – (so far as can be told from reading these regurgitated newspaper reports) – the French authorities issued a denial that it was a terrorist attack before they’d even checked.
    It may only been confirmed now because they couldn’t pressure all their employees to keep quiet about what they’d uncovered ?

  10. Margita says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 10:14 pm

    Didn’t he work in IT in their anti terrorist department? You couldn’t make it up.

  11. infidel says

    Oct 5, 2019 at 11:54 pm

    ONCE AGAIN.. As we in India say

    RULLS…

    RANDOM UNCEASING LOW LEVEL SCATTERED.. Islamic violence will keep going on and on and on…

  12. dumbledoresarmy says

    Oct 6, 2019 at 9:47 am

    He converted to Islam.. He was, like any convert to any system, enthusiastic about his chosen belief system.. Had he become a Christian, or a Buddhist, no problem. But people who convert to Islam become *dangerous* to those around them… The minute he was known to have converted to Islam his security clearance *should* have been rescinded. If his employers knew about al-wala wa al-baraa, there is no way they could permit a declared card-carrying Muslim to continue in work that involves protecting infidels from Muslim jihadi attacks.

    Note also that “… his wife is also a Muslim who comes from an Arab background.” This suggests that was a ‘cradle Muslim’ rather than a convert. I’d love to know whether his conversion preceded or followed his involvement with her. Because.. Muslim women aren’t allowed to marry non-Muslims who remain non-Muslim. An infidel man *must* convert to Islam if he wants to marry some oh-so-sweeeet hijabette.

    I’d also like to know whether he was in his current job *before* his conversion to Islam.

    Thought for the day. Are Muslim operatives actively seeking access. looking for people like this bloke who can be *converted* .. perhaps by means of the ‘honey trap’?

    There’s jihad of the pen, jihad of the tongue, jihad of the purse (i.e. bribery and corruption, influence-buying) and.. jihad of the *bedroom*.

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