Apparently no attempt was made to determine Sid Ahmed Ghlam’s views on jihad, unbelievers, and related issues. To have done so would have been “Islamophobic.”
“Sid Ahmed Ghlam, on trial for the murder of Aurélie Châtelain, has benefited from family reunification, a grant and housing assistance. He also gave Arabic lessons at the mosque (Update),” translated from “Sid Ahmed Ghlam, jugé pour le meurtre d’Aurélie Châtelain, a bénéficié du regroupement familial, d’une bourse et d’une aide au logement. Il donnait aussi des cours d’arabe à la mosquée (MàJ),” Fdescouche, October 10, 2020 (thanks to Mason):
Sid Ahmed Ghlam, the man behind the failed Villejuif bombing and the murder of Aurélie Châtelain in April 2015, had received various French state aids such as a scholarship, university accommodation and housing assistance.
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But what more intrigued the court was his link with France. Indeed, he says it himself: “I had no difficulty living in French society”. And for good reason: he has repeatedly benefited from aid from the French state. Thus, he took advantage of family reunification, obtained a residence permit easily, and despite a failed university course, at the start of 2015, he still benefited from university accommodation, a monthly grant of 418 euros as well as accommodation of 199 euros.
(…) Every week, he returns to the family home and goes to the Saint-Dizier mosque, where he gives Arabic lessons. (…)
Accused of having prepared an attack in Villejuif in 2015, Sid-Ahmed Ghlam appears on Monday before the special assize court in Paris. The 28-year-old Algerian is also on trial for the murder of a young mother, Aurélie Châtelain. He has always denied having killed her.
It’s a telescoping that will take some getting used to. As the trial of the January attacks continues this week, another symbolic terrorist trial opens Monday in Paris before the special assize court. That of Sid-Ahmed Ghlam and his alleged accomplices. This 28-year-old Algerian is accused of having shot dead Aurélie Châtelain, a fitness teacher, on April 19, 2015 in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), which he denies. He is mainly suspected of having wanted to commit a massacre that day in a church. The investigation established the very close ties he had maintained with senior officials of the Islamic State (IS) group.