“Sources said he had worked in a section of the police service dedicated to collecting information on jihadist radicalisation.”
No one would have dared question his placement in that section. To have done so would have been “Islamophobic.” The fear of charges of “Islamophobia” paralyzes counterterror efforts all over the West; this is a quintessential illustration of that fact.
“Paris police worker who stabbed four colleagues to death followed ‘radical vision of Islam’ and agreed with terror attacks including Charlie Hebdo massacre says prosecutor,” by Jack Newman, Mailonline, October 5, 2019:
The civilian police worker who slaughtered four colleagues in a frenzied knife attack adhered to ‘a radical vision of Islam’ an anti-terror prosecutor said.
The assailant, 45-year-old computer expert Michael Harpon, had been in contact with members of the ‘Salafist Islamist movement’, prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard told reporters.
The attacker ‘agreed with certain atrocities committed in the name of that religion’ and defended the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015 which rocked Paris, Ricard said.
He had also changed his attire in recent months and wished to no longer ‘have certain kinds of contact with women’.
Three police officers and an administrative worker – three men and a woman – died in the frenzied 30-minute attack on Thursday at the police headquarters, a stone’s throw from the Notre-Dame cathedral in the historic heart of Paris….
Sources at the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Friday the case had been passed to the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office PNAT after early enquiries suggested that the attacker, a convert to Islam, could have become radicalised.
The assailant was born on the French overseas territory of Martinique in the Caribbean.
Sources said he had worked in a section of the police service dedicated to collecting information on jihadist radicalisation.
Several people interviewed by police have since revealed he converted to Islam in 2008, not 18 months ago as had been suggested, according to BFMTV.
Harpon also had links with a hate preacher in the Val-d’Oise who is known to French intelligence agencies, investigators found after searching his phone.
Is that hate preacher still preaching? Why?
They also found texts between Harpon and his wife shortly before the attack which mentioned the 33cm ceramic knife.
Iham replied, ‘Only God will judge you, Allahu akbar’, according to Le Parisien.
Iham, who was arrested shortly after the attack, told detectives that Harpon had ‘heard voices’ and was ‘incoherent and suffered a dementia attack’ the night before….
That’s obviously a lie. She clearly knew what he had in mind.
Computer records and telephone intercepts have also 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….
Colleagues described Harpon as a previously trusted employee who had full security clearance to work in the Prefecture’s IT department….
Ajay says
Please quit those high moral standards. Come back to the ground and see the reality.
Paul says
I am sorry but I don’t understand the comment by Ajay.
Please explain.
Paul
Trick_or_Treat says
Yes, pure genius, sort of like having Vito Corleone working as an agent in a department of the FBI that’s specializes in gathering and collating intelligence on organized crime syndicates, I can understand that one. The world gets smarter and smarter every day.
Michael Copeland says
Ever skirting the issue, here we go again……”a radical vision of Islam”, he “might have become radicalised”. Time and time again Western authorities scrape the barrel for any method of deflecting the blame away from Islam itself.
This phenomenon is borne of ignorance, and wrong assumptions.
They have not looked at Islam’s clear instructions, so they are ignorant.
They assume, wrongly, that because Islam is a religion it must be peaceful, and they have never questioned this, or sought to back it up with proof.
In short, they are negligent.
Individual muslims are not permitted to hold their own individual “vision” of Islam.
“It is not for a believing man or a believing woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter, that they should [thereafter] have any choice about their affair.”
Koran 33:36, part of Islamic law.
A man in Iran who held Koran meetings in his house suggested to his audience that the story of Jonah and the whale be taken figuratively. He was hanged.
“…then we fight them, and we abduct their women, and destroy their churches —
This is Islam!… Come on! Learn what Islam is!”
Grand Ayatollah Ahmad Al Baghdadi
to interviewer on Iraq television.
https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/iraqi-ayatollah-abducting-women-and-destroying-raymond-ibrahim/
Rufolino says
Absolutely Michael, thank you.
Donovan Nuera says
I wonder if the French police has another bureau that actual ANALYZES the information that that other bureau COLLECTS on jihadis???
Donovan Nuera says
I wonder if that same French police department has data on any of the construction workers from Notre Dame Cathedral that is just, oh I dunno, is just locked in some drawer….
Tom says
So many red flags ….. So much willful blindness. Paralyzed by fear of being accused of Islamophobia the French have become a nation ruled by fear. As have so many other western nations.
Donovan Nuera says
Reminds me of Army Traitor Hassan (the Fort Hood Jihadi) who brazenly wore “SoA”[Soldier of Allah] wording either on his name badge or was on his letterhead on official documents.
(Of course even more maddening was his trial took 4 years to convict him despite dozens of eye-witnesses (who were SHOT by him)! It took the idiot judge 6 months for his legal-eagle staff to FINALLY conclude that, yes, his salafist beard did not comport with the regulations and was not covered under “freedom of religion” exception. Now the death penalty sentence is being mulled over by “Top.Men” at the Pentagon to make sure his conviction was okeedokie. (Of course a Pentagon lawyer, wanting to show up is Yale Law School chums, will no doubt bring up a new “theory” why his conviction should be thrown out..))
Sorry for my lengthy digression. The PC overlords never have to live with their idiocy…and never recognize that they are to ever blame.
Donovan Nuera says
On a side note of how pathetic the French society is in regard to national pride and faith; only 9% of pledges to restore Notre Dame Cathedral have been received….(a large percentage from Americans, naturellemênt!). If we Fellow Americans end up paying for all of it, it is a good sign at least that We understand what is at stake…and to hopefully make Pope Facebook realize that he should stop denigrating our piety (like he had when he basically abandoned the “Ladies in White” in Cuba who humbly walk to Mass each Sunday…knowing that they are going to get physically brutalized by atheist goonsquads commanded by his BFF Raul Castro). Pope Facebook needs to stop hanging around Sheihk al-Tayyab from al-Ashar.
Janice Mermikli says
Agreed. “Pope Facebook” – I like that!
FYI says
The convert to islam credo….
I am ENTITLED to break God’s {Exodus 20 v 1-17}Commandments because the ‘holy’ koran says so.
I can murder non-muslims k2:191
I can steal from non-muslims k48:20
I can bear false witness k3:28 to promote islam
I can use women and commit adultery even with captured women k4:24
I am ALLOWED to hate,not to “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR” since allah missed the 2nd chief commandment and because of islam’s DOCTRINE OF HATRED{al walaa wal baraa}
I am PERMITTED to do evil as the religion of terror,islam,gives me that permission
I am FREE to follow the murderous example of muhammed
I am ENTITLED to commit TREASON and betray others
I can PRETEND Not to know about God’s Exodus 20 laws which CONDEMN murder,stealing etc
My new found pagan Arab god al LAH{“The BEST of deceivers” k3:54} says so.
In return for a daily show of FALSE PIETY,allah will reward me in his carnal paradise,no matter what EVIL I do..just as long as islam/allah/the koran gives me permission.
islam:”Commandments?What commandments?”
Giacomo Latta says
The French need to create a ”hearing voices and dementia department.” After Muslims have used that excuse several times instead of ‘fessin’ up, Administrators can start comparing counts of Muslim demented to that of non-Muslims. If they are too afraid to come to the obvious solution at least the rest of us can.