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France: Paris jihad murderer had top security clearance, data on dozens of cops in his apartment

Oct 8, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“It is frightful to imagine what he may have done with such sensitive information.”

Yes. But will the French authorities now do anything effective to make sure this doesn’t happen again? Of course not. That would be “Islamophobic.” Mickaël Harpon is likely to be the first of many, because any attempt to question Muslim officials or deny them top security clearance if that questioning turned up anything suspicious would immediately be denounced as “racist” and “bigoted.” The fear of charges of “Islamophobia” is a suicide pill.

More on this story.

“Paris police attacker had top secret security clearance,” by Lara Marlowe, Irish Times, October 7, 2019:

Mickaël Harpon, who stabbed three police officers and a woman civil servant to death before he was killed at Paris police headquarters on October 3rd, was a radical Islamist with a top secret security clearance and access to all computers in the police prefecture’s directorate of intelligence, known as the DRPP.

The DRPP is responsible for the surveillance of suspected radical Islamists. Yet Harpon continued to work there, even as he showed signs of radicalisation. This mind-boggling fact has shaken President Emmanuel Macron’s administration. Interior minister Christophe Castaner admitted the state “dysfunctioned” but denied there was a “state scandal”.

“The Paris attack showed the poison of radical Islam has penetrated the heart of the state apparatus,” said Le Figaro’s front-page editorial, which concluded the state is in denial.

Harpon, a West Indian, aged 45, was a deaf mute computer technician. Mr Castaner initially described him as an employee with no behavioural problems. Now the right and far right are clamouring for Mr Castaner’s resignation. The minister defended himself on Monday, saying he told “the truth as it was known” in the hours after the attack.

It is not known whether Harpon divulged secrets to fellow Islamists, Mr Castaner told France Inter radio. “I cannot guarantee he did not use his access to give information. For the time being, nothing indicates that he did.”

Senator Christian Cambon, head of the parliamentary committee on intelligence which will question Mr Castaner on Tuesday, said Harpon had access to the names and home addresses of all police agents. “It is frightful to imagine what he may have done with such sensitive information,” Mr Cambon said.

Police found USB sticks with data on dozens of police officers, as well as Islamic State propaganda videos, in Harpon’s apartment, France 2 television reported on Monday night.

Harpon attended prayers at the mosque in Gonesse, the banlieue north of Paris where he lived. He had recently begun wearing Muslim robes to the mosque and frequented Salafists, Muslims who interpet [sic] the Koran literally and want to return to the time of the Prophet. His mobile phone showed contact with a radical preacher who is under police surveillance, Le Figaro reported…

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  1. terry sullivan says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 5:27 pm

    this should be unbelieveable–but it is the norm in so many civilized countries

    islam is a cancer and must be eradicated–TINA

    • Ida says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 5:54 pm

      It is unlikely that the destructive Ideology of islam will be ‘eradicated’ as TINA said. It is well past time, however, that more people and government entities make the firm stand for the Truth about islam, and enact laws to protect the rest of societies from their rampant violence.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 9:28 pm

      Terry, it doesn’t help to use over-the-top language. Islam is a political ideology filled with absurd ideas springing from vicious delusions of a 7th century madman suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy. Muslims self-hypnotize and some of them who convince themselves of the requirement of jihad commit cruel, evil deeds. We live a world of human rights and in such a world the way to ‘eradicate’ Islam is to convince Muslims that humans wrote the Koran and the hadiths inspired by Mohammed’s mental illness. It’s a bad IDEOLOGY.

      • the least of terry's says

        Oct 9, 2019 at 6:27 am

        With islmaist, one does not talk the devil out of being satan….

      • Giacomo Latta says

        Oct 9, 2019 at 9:40 am

        Know what else is bad ideology? Political correctness in the form of unrealistic and excessive polyannaish bleeding-heart drivel.

  2. Trick_or_Treat says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 6:13 pm

    With every fact that has now emerged about all the prior red flags put up by the muslim shit at the center of this very latest case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome in the so-called ‘anti-terrorist [ahem, excuse me] ‘intelligence’ department of the French Police, I feel every confidence in stating that this one most certainly would not have been allowed to happen here in Australia.
    Despite whatever past slip ups and failings, and despite whatever (even legitimate) criticisms we may have, or had, regarding our own police and intelligence services here, they still have infinitely more brains and common sense than what the French have. This ‘sweating stick of muslim gelignite’ – if he had ever managed to procure such a departmental position here in the very first place [which I think is highly unlikely] – would most certainly have been shown the front door and ‘given his road map and billy-can’ at least by 2015 (or even before). And not only that but he would have become a POI on the constant surveillance list. He would not have even got a contract as a cleaner for a local suburban police station.
    Makes me wonder just how good this French (so-called) ‘anti-terrorist intelligence’ department actually are at chatter and traffic analysis? !

    • Rufolino says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 4:19 am

      In a hundred years time it will be a commonplace to remark how in the Twenty First Century, Europe, and its culture, showed every sign that it wanted to commit suicide.

  3. somehistory says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    ““I cannot guarantee he did not use his access to give information. For the time being, nothing indicates that he did.”

    What do the USB sticks with police information on them indicate? He had them in his apartment, but what was he doing with them away from work?

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 9:43 am

      Give the police time to come with some stupid statement, like ”he just read them for fun since he doesn’t have Charlie Hebdo to read anymore.”

  4. Bacherbazistan says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    Ironic that above article is from Irish Times, since they are so keen on muslims joining the Irish police.

  5. KWJ says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    Heck, Homeland Security USA had hired about 60 people who were on Watch lists. You’re supposed to do background checks *before* you hire. That wasn’t talked up much in the media…might cause “Islamophobia.” That’s not the only government department that’s hired bad characters. Just saying, France isn’t unique.

    All too often mosques are bad for one’s character-they don’t seem to make people kinder and gentler. In other words, they spawn not peaceful people.

    I get a kick out of media’s explanation of Salafism, that is, taking the Qur’an literally. How else is there to take it? Fight until only Allah is worshipped, don’t take non-Muslims as friends, you can only have sex with your wife and slavery girl, captive Jews and Christians can’t live only if the pay the jizya (extortion tax) or convert, otherwise fight until death…and so on. So hoe is one not to take that literally? So, what is figurative? Bible stories, gardens and 60 cubic feet tall Houris and endless sex in Paradise?

    I repeatedly see this in articles. Robert ought to set the record straight. I’ve read teachers in Germany calling some Muslim students Salafists because they already have the chauvinist attitudes towards women and are apparently learning Islam’s violent origin and history. The things they’re saying are normative Islam…the Qur’an and ahadith.

    • Michacel Copeland says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 5:48 am

      A man in Iran who held Koran sessions in his home put forward his suggestion that the story of Jonah and the whale be taken figuratively.
      He was hanged.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 7:14 am

      A man in Iran said the story of Jonah and the whale should be taken figuratively.
      He was hanged.
      Innovation is not allowed.

  6. Norger says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 8:25 pm

    Of course, it would have bigoted and Islamophobic to even consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe Muslims who are given top secret security clearance to police computers should be subjected to extra scrutiny or better yet not given such access in first instance. This is where political correctness becomes positively suicidal.

  7. gravenimage says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 8:35 pm

    France: Paris jihad murderer had top security clearance, data on dozens of cops in his apartment
    ……………….

    Yes–and this was *after* this Jihadist had expressed support for the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

    • Norger says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 8:44 pm

      And the French police—the police!—were too intimidated to dare to even take notice, much less action.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 8, 2019 at 8:47 pm

        Yes–terribly alarming.

  8. mortimer says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 9:31 pm

    Muslims working in intelligence or security should do regular lie-detector checks to test if they are radicalized.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 9:58 pm

      This is mainstream Islam, Mortimer–there is nothing “radical” about Jihad.

      And this Jihadist himself said that he was for the Charlie Hebdo massacre–if that wasn’t enough to give the police a head’s up, I don’t think the results of a lie detector test would be.

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Oct 9, 2019 at 12:42 am

        True. He could have told them in all sincerity that one day he was going to slit their throats because the Koran tells him he should and they would not have believed him — because they were indoctrinated to believe Islam is a religion of peace and that the most pious Muslims are also the ones most dedicated to loving all of mankind. Maybe now a few more of the French are having their doubts about that.

        I wonder how that French version of Islam is coming along.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 9, 2019 at 12:48 am

          I don’t know if they didn’t believe him–or if they were just too cowed to do anything about it. Suicidal insanity, in any case.

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Oct 9, 2019 at 2:57 am

          I am currently reading Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities.” In contrast to the novel the tale being told today is now the same for both London and Paris — a rise in immigrants accompanied by a plague of knife attacks and, yes, a form of suicidal insanity that afflicts both cities indeed. I see the image of the grindstone permanently stained red as the blades continue to be sharpened.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 9:48 am

      Lie-detectors only work on those who have souls. If you are Charles Manson, the Son of Sam or a muslim they do not work.

  9. Suebe says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    I believe the King of Islam has been kicked out of Heaven for good. Satan himself, can no longer talk to our Heavenly Father so now he can fully concentrate on his kingdom he established with Mohammed centuries ago. “WOE” to the inhabitors of the Earth.

    • somehistory says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 12:40 pm

      And he is really angry about being kicked out, so he is waging an all-out war on mankind, esp those who wish to serve and obey the True God and Father.

  10. Lavéritétriomphera says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 3:32 am

    Satan has been active from at least Great War of 1914-1918:
    – Communism,
    – Stalinism,
    – Fascism,
    – Moral decay in the West,
    – Islamism…

    • somehistory says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 12:42 pm

      And so much more as evidenced by the daily news and by things yet to be fully uncovered.

    • Bacherbazistan says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 7:18 pm

      We are getting the chaos we were threatened with by Our Lady of Fatima in 1917.

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