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Paris kosher supermarket that was scene of deadly 2015 terror attack damaged by arson, Jew-hate in Switzerland hits new high

2025-03-22

[IsraelTimes] A kosher supermarket in Paris that was the scene of a deadly terror attack in 2015 was targeted in an overnight arson attack, reports say.

The front of the Hyper Cacher supermarket was damaged and there was some damage to the interior of the store.

A man was seen on CCTV setting fire to four containers placed in front of the entrance to the supermarket, before setting fire to a nearby dumpster, reports say.

Twelve people were massacred at Charlie Hebdo’s Paris offices on January 7, 2015, by the brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who said they were acting on behalf of Al-Qaeda to avenge the paper’s decision to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

A day later, Amedy Coulibaly killed a 27-year-old police officer during a traffic check outside Paris, before killing four Jewish men during a hostage-taking at the Hyper Cacher supermarket on January 9, claiming to act in the name of the Islamic State terror group.

Antisemitism in Switzerland reached ‘unprecedented level’ in 2024, study finds

It will be interesting to see how much that has changed a year or two from now.

[IsraelTimes] Antisemitic incidents in Switzerland have reached an “unprecedented level,” rising 43 percent in 2024, according to a new report by the Swiss Federation of Israelite Communities (SIG) and the GRA Foundation against Racism and Antisemitism.

Some 221 antisemitic incidents were recorded during the year, compared to 155 in 2023 and 57 in 2022, the report says.

The report notes a sharp rise in physical violence during the year, including an attempted arson attack on a synagogue and 11 cases of assault.

A knife attack in Zurich by a teen who is said to have shouted “Death to Jews” nearly killed a 50-year-old man, the report notes.

Another 1,596 incidents were recorded online, with over 55% found on the Telegram platform. The figure is based on new software used for monitoring online media, and cannot be compared with previous figures, SIG says.

The rise in antisemitism since Hamas launched its war against Israel on October 7, 2023, has significantly affected the Jewish community’s sense of security, with many now avoiding displaying religious symbols in public out of fear of harassment or violence, the report says.

The SIG and GRA call for stronger government action, including increased security for Jewish institutions and legal measures to combat online hate speech.

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France has tried ten times to deport the Mulhouse attacker to Algeria; Schizo Algerian knifeman named, three more arrested

2025-02-24

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] French security forces have unsuccessfully approached the Algerian authorities ten times with a request to expel from France a native of this country who attacked people with a knife in the city of Mulhouse. This was stated on February 22 by the head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs Bruno Retaillo on the air of the TF1 TV channel.

"My services have contacted the Algerian consulate ten times, but they have never taken back a person born in Algeria. I think we need to change our position in relations with Algeria. From now on, the balance of power must change," Retailo said.

Very glad to hear it.

According to the head of the Interior Ministry, France was "too kind" to Algeria, but this country did not appreciate the "helping hand extended to it", and therefore tough measures must be taken to force it to accept Algerians deported by the French authorities.

The AFP (Agence France-Presse) agency clarified that in 2023, the attacker was being treated for schizophrenia in a psychiatric hospital, and also abused alcohol and drugs.

Earlier, Regnum reported that at least one person was killed and five were wounded in an attack by a man armed with a knife in Mulhouse, a French city in the east of the country. The attack took place near a street market in the afternoon. According to preliminary information, the victims were municipal workers. The suspect was detained and was registered with law enforcement agencies as part of efforts to "prevent terrorism."

French President Emmanuel Macron expressed condolences to the victims of the attack, calling it an act of terrorism.

And so it was: the weaponized madmen of the hard jihad of the sword.
The Times of Israel adds:

Portuguese man killed in Saturday attack in city of Mulhouse; French authorities arrest four after terror stabbing in country’s east

Four people were in jug Sunday after a deadly stabbing in eastern La Belle France that authorities linked to Islamic extremism, according to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office.

A Portuguese man was killed in the Saturday attack in the city of Mulhouse, near the border with Germany. Seven coppers were maimed, including a parking control agent hospitalized with grave injuries, the prosecutor’s office said.

Those detained include the suspected assailant, a 37-year-old Algerian man identified by prosecutors as Brahim A. The interior minister described him as an Islamic turban with a schizophrenic profile. Two of the suspect’s family members and a person who lodged him were also detained, the prosecutor’s office said.

The suspect repeatedly said "~~holy shit!~~ Allahu akbar" — "God is great" in Arabic — during the attack, the prosecutor said. He was armed with a knife and a screwdriver.

The suspect arrived in La Belle France without papers in 2014 and was arrested and convicted of glorifying terrorism in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas
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..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
attack on Israel, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau told news hounds Saturday night. Police experts had ″detected a schizophrenic profile″ in the suspect, he added.

After several months in prison for that conviction, the suspect was confined to house arrest as authorities sought to expel him to Algeria. Retailleau criticized Algeria for resisting the return of criminals La Belle France is seeking to deport.

The suspect was also on a terror watchlist, called FSPRT, which compiles data from various authorities on individuals to prevent "terrorist" radicalization. It was launched in 2015 following deadly attacks on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...Pix/Charliehebdo.jpgA lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
’s offices and a Jewish supermarket.

The French government will convene a special meeting Wednesday about immigration in the wake of the attack, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Sunday. They will notably study 19 countries "where we have the most difficulty in returning people without papers,″ Barrot said on Europe-1 radio.

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One dead, several police wounded in ‘Islamist’ stabbing attack in France

2025-02-23

[IsraelTimes] French authorities had tried 10 times to deport Algerian-born suspect in attack, in city of Mulhouse, but home country refused to accept him, says French interior minister

It’s time for France either to start playing hardball with Algeria and other recipient countries or bring back the death penalty for radical Islamists,ie everyone on those watchlists. And shut down all the radical mosques — freedom of religion cannot mean the freedom to encourage believers to viciously break the law.

One person was killed and two coppers were seriously injured Saturday in a knife attack in eastern La Belle France that President Emmanuel Macron said was an "Islamist terror act."

Prosecutors said three more officers were lightly maimed in the attack in the city of Mulhouse, carried out by a 37-year-old suspect who is on a terror prevention watchlist, prosecutor Nicolas Heitz told AFP.

The suspect was in jug.

La Belle France’s national anti-terror prosecutors unit (PNAT), which has taken charge of the investigation, said the suspect first attacked the municipal coppers, shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest).

Witnesses confirmed to AFP that the suspect had several times shouted the words in Arabic that are used by Moslems as an exclamation of their faith.

A civilian passer-by who intervened was fatally injured, the PNAT said in a statement. According to Mulhouse prosecutors, he was a 69-year-old Portuguese national.

Macron said there was "no doubt" that the incident was "a terrorist act," specifically "an Islamist terrorist act."

The government was determined to continue doing "everything to eradicate terrorism on our soil," Macron added.

The terror watchlist, called FSPRT, compiles data from various authorities on individuals with the aim of preventing "terrorist" radicalization. It was launched in 2015 following deadly attacks on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...Pix/charlie1100719-264x350.jpgA lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
’s offices and a Jewish supermarket.

One of the seriously maimed coppers sustained an injury to the carotid artery, and the other to the thorax, Heitz said.

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau was expected to travel to the scene of the attack later Saturday.

Police established a security parameter after the attack that happened shortly before 4:00 pm (1500 GMT) during a demonstration in support of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
in a busy part of Mulhouse, a city of around 110,000 inhabitants.

Military units were sent to the scene as backup and forensic scientists searched for evidence, working hurriedly to examine blood stains before rain could wash them away.

FRANCE TRIED TO DEPORT THE SUSPECT 10 TIMES
The suspect was born in Algeria and has been under judicial supervision and house arrest, with an expulsion order from La Belle France.

Retailleau told French broadcaster TF1 that La Belle France had tried to expel him 10 times, with the Algerians refusing each time to accept him.

"Horror has seized our city," Mulhouse mayor Michele Lutz said on Facebook. The incident was being investigated as a terror attack, she said, but "this must obviously still be confirmed by the judiciary."

The PNAT said it is investigating the attack for murder, and attempted murder "in connection with a terrorist enterprise."

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Man jailed for knife attack aimed at French magazine Charlie Hebdo

2025-01-27

[IsraelTimes] A Gay Paree court sentences a Pak man to 30 years in jail for attempting to murder two people outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo'>Charlie Hebdo
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in 2020 with a meat cleaver.

When he carried out the attack, 29-year-old Zaheer Mahmood

…more fully Zeheer Hassan Mehmood from Mandi Bahauddin in Punjab province, whose dear papa avowed himself terribly proud of his son for his actions. Of some small interest, when first arrested the miscreant was identified as Ali, age 18, and then as Hassan A., 18…

wrongly believed the satirical newspaper was still based in the building, which was targeted by Islamists a decade ago for publishing cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad.

In fact, Charlie Hebdo had moved in the wake of the storming of its offices by two al-Qaeda-linked masked button men, who killed 12 people including eight of the paper’s editorial staff. The killings in January 2015 shocked La Belle France and triggered a fierce debate about freedom of expression and religion.

Originally from rural Pakistain, Mahmood arrived in La Belle France illegally in the summer of 2019. The court heard how Mahmood was influenced by radical Pak preacher Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who had called for the beheading of blasphemers.

Khadim Rizvi, who died in 2020, was the Punjabi founder of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, which campaigned on the death penalty for blasphemers, the establishment of Sharia law, and calling out huge mobs to protest about such things.

Mahmood was convicted of attempted murder and terrorist conspiracy and he will be banned from La Belle France when his sentence is served.

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Charlie Hebdo to mark 10 years since terror attack with special God-mocking edition

2025-01-05

[IsraelTimes] Magazine to feature ‘funniest and meanest’ depictions of God; Macron, Hidalgo to attend memorials at satirical weekly’s then-office, kosher supermarket attacked in related assault

French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo'>Charlie Hebdo
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is set to publish a special God-mocking edition next week to mark 10 years since an attack on its offices by jihadist button men left eight staff members dead.

The anniversary of the shocking attack on freedom of expression is being used by the atheist publication to send a message of defiance to the holy warriors who burst into its offices on January 7, 2015, then fled shouting they had "killed Charlie Hebdo."

"They didn’t kill Charlie Hebdo," editor-in-chief Gerard Biard told AFP in a recent interview, adding that "we want it to last for a thousand years."

The attack by two Gay Paree-born brothers was Dire Revenge for Charlie Hebdo’s decision to repeatedly publish caricatures lampooning the Prophet Muhammad, Islam’s most revered figure.

The massacre of some of La Belle France’s most famous cartoonists signaled the start of a gruesome series of al-Qaeda and Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
plots that claimed hundreds of lives in La Belle France and Western Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
over the following years.

Two days after the attack, a terrorist killed four French Jews and held 15 people hostage at Gay Paree’s Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket to demand that the Charlie Hebdo perpetrators not be harmed.

Next week’s edition is set to feature the results of a typically provocative competition launched in November to draw the "funniest and meanest" depictions of God. It will be revealed on Sunday evening.

It is intended for "everyone who is fed up with living in a society directed by God and religion. Everyone who is fed up with the so-called good and evil. Everyone who is fed up with religious leaders dictating our lives."

French President Emmanuel Macron and Gay Paree Mayor Anne Hidalgo will attend commemoration events on Tuesday at the location of the attack and at Hyper Cacher.

SOLIDARITY
The Charlie Hebdo killings profoundly shocked La Belle France. The attack fueled an outpouring of sympathy expressed in a wave of "Je Suis Charlie" ("I Am Charlie") solidarity with its lost contributors including famed cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Honore, Tignous and Wolinski.

But it also led to questioning, and in some cases a furious backlash, against Charlie’s deliberately offensive, often crude strain of humor, which is part of a long-standing French tradition of caricaturing.

Since its founding in 1970, the publication has regularly tested the boundaries of French hate-speech laws, which offer protection to minorities but allow for blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
and the mockery of religion.

Free-speech defenders in La Belle France see the ability to criticize and ridicule religion as a fundamental right acquired through centuries of struggle to escape the influence of the Catholic Church.

Critics say the weekly sometimes crosses the line into Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
, pointing to some of the Prophet Muhammad caricatures published in the past that appeared to associate Islam with terrorism.

"The idea is not to publish anything, it’s to publish everything that makes people doubt, brings them to reflect, to ask questions, to not end up closed in by ideology," director Riss, who survived the 2015 attack, told Le Monde in November.

"Basically, not being screwed over by what’s fashionable."

WINDFALL
The attack on Charlie Hebdo brought a mostly marginal publication into the mainstream and propelled it to the attention of hundreds of millions worldwide who often struggled to understand its contents.

More than three million people marched in solidarity in the streets of La Belle France afterward, and around 40 world leaders flew into Gay Paree to make a statement in defense of the free press.

A special post-attack edition of the newspaper sold more than eight million copies and donations poured in, giving the publication a financial windfall at odds with its anarcho-leftist spirit.

Subscriptions ballooned to more than 200,000 but have now fallen back to around 30,000, with another 20,000 copies sold at newsstands and in shops each week, which still exceeds Charlie Hebdo’s sales before the attack.

Thanks to new recruits, around 12 cartoonists are back working on the magazine at a secret, heavily protected office.

Controversy is never far away.

A front-page depiction of the Virgin Mary in August suffering from the mpox virus led to two legal complaints from Catholic organizations in La Belle France.

A cartoon by Riss in 2016 that linked a child refugee found dead on a beach in ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
to foreign sexual attackers in Germany caused outrage, as did another the year after poking fun at French First Lady Brigitte Macron’s age by showing her pregnant.

On the first anniversary of the attack in 2015, Charlie Hebdo published a front-page cartoon of a bearded God-like figure carrying a Kalashnikov rifle.

"One year after, the killer is still on the run," read the title.

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Taqiyya: the West should know better

2024-12-27

[Giulio Meotti, Arutz 7] Anyone who went to a European Christmas market in the 1990s and early 2000s would never have thought that their life could be in danger. Those days are gone.

In October we discovered that the killer who murdered the children in Southport, England, was not a slightly crazy Rwandan Christian refugee, as the English government and all the mainstream media had assured us, but a terrorist with an Al Qaeda manual in his house and chemical material to make a bomb.

That was the work of Axel Rudakubana —more fully Axel Muganwa Rudakubana — the Wales-born, Moslem son of Christian immigrants from Rwanda who fell prey to previously undiagnosed Sudden Jihad Syndrome and attacked a girls’ Taylor Swift dance party in Southport with a knife …

For four months they kept the truth hidden. Why?

And who remembers the "Christian kamikaze", Emad Al Swealmeen, the name of the Liverpool attacker? "Enzo Almeni," as his friends called him, was an asylum seeker with a Syrian father and Iraqi mother who had changed his name to sound "more Western" and had faked a conversion to Christianity to hide his identity and motives. He wanted to attack the cathedral.

Instead, the Mother of Satan (TATP) and ball bearing bomb that he’d worked on for seven months went off while he was locked in a taxi outside a Liverpool maternity hospital, the quick-witted cab driver having jumped out when he realized the thing was about to kaboom.

Now we have the Saudi doctor who killed 5 people at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg, central Germany.

There is now discussion about the identity of the attacker, a Saudi doctor who claimed to have abandoned Islam, Taleb Al Abdulmohsen. And so the morning after the massacre we woke up to a sea of idiocies based on his statements that he is a "former Muslim". Why an attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg against Christians?

The dear doctor was pro-Hamas. Many former Muslims who knew him assure us that he never gave up Islam and that he cheated the West to be given asylum.

Did he practice taqiya, which is an Islamic practice that allows believers to deceive the enemy, pretend to be something else, in order to carry out Jihad?

The Saudis had warned the Germans that Taleb was dangerous.

A few months ago in Annecy, France, a man from Syria terrorized a park by stabbing several children. An asylum seeker who was first accepted as such in Sweden ten years ago pretending to be an atheist, Christian or homosexual to obtain asylum is a common phenomenon. The attacker in Annecy with the knife claimed to be Christian and was wearing a cross. The Syrian was in fact a former member of Bashar al-Assad's army who then joined ISIS before seeking and obtaining political asylum in Europe.

He went by Abdelmasih Hanoun — "Abdelmasih" means "Slave of Christ” — and had lived for a decade in Sweden with official refugee status and a Swedish wife, but left when his citizenship application was denied and his wife divorced him. France denied his asylum application days before the attack because he was already approved in Sweden. He was subsequently identified as Selwan Majd, a Moslem refugee from Hasakah, Syria.

Everyone knew that no Christian could blow himself up inside a cathedral, just as no Christian would stab children at random in a dance class and no ex-Muslim would attack a Christmas market in Magdeburg.

So my greatest fear is that taqiya has made incredible and chilling progress in the West.

In August it came out that one of the terrorists who wanted to carry out a massacre at the Taylor Swift concert in Vienna worked for a company that provides services at concerts.

In England they have just arrested a police officer for supporting Hamas.

In the Netherlands, police officers are no longer required to enforce laws protecting Jews, or to provide them equal treatment. So some stand by when Jews or their property are attacked; some join in.

Mickaël Harpon, the perpetrator of the massacre at the Paris Prefecture that cost the lives of four police officers, was a police officer in charge of anti-terrorism in one of the most protected places in France. The computer 007 was was hired by a department whose priorities included the fight against "terrorism, particularly radical Islamism." Harpon had secretly converted to Islam.

Joined the police in 2003, converted to Islam in 2008, upset colleagues by defending the Al Qaeda Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015. He and his wife exchanged almost three dozen Islamist text messages shortly before he ran amok with two knives. The wife was released without charge after questioning in the gallant French way.

Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, deputy commander of the judicial police, and his partner Jessica Schneider, a secretary at a police station, were killed in their home in Magnanville by an Islamist. Some time later, police investigating a woman for suspected links to ISIS made a shocking discovery: the woman had a USB that contained the personal details of thousands of French police officers.

Like the sensational news that the bodyguard assigned to Geert Wilders had been completely replaced after a police officer of Muslim origin, Faris, had passed sensitive information on the Dutch politician to gangs.

Remember how US Army Major Nidal Hasan, shouting "Allahu Akbar," killed 13 colleagues at the Fort Hood base in Texas? Who suspected him?

Numerous people reported his suspicious utterances. The chain of command somehow managed to be shocked when he tried to kill everyone.

The loss of border control is being followed by the loss of internal control. But worse still is the loss of control over one’s own identity. One thing is clear: parallel societies are growing in Europe. The authorities and the public have no idea.

The sooner we come to terms with our false conscience and reassuring lies, the sooner we will know how to defend ourselves. Alternatively, we can only say a prayer for the dead, dead because of the recklessness of a Western political and cultural class that every year doubles the stakes in a crazy experiment that can only end in a suicide.

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French court convicts 8 people of involvement in 2020 beheading of teacher

2024-12-21

[IsraelTimes] Two friends of dead attacker sentenced to 16 years in prison for complicity in murder; father of schoolgirl whose lies sparked killing sentenced to 13 years

La Belle France’s anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty outside his school near Gay Paree four years ago, a horrific death that shocked the country.

Paty, 47, was killed by an Islamic bully boy outside his school on Oct. 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression. The assailant, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, was shot to death by police.

That would be Abdoullakh Anzorov, 26, the vicious petty criminal from Chechnya whose asylum request had just been renewed for another decade when he cut off the head of local teacher, just because he was asked. Among his many personal connections was known wolf Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, the Iranian-Frenchman who a year ago geared up with knife and hammer to attack tourists near the Eiffel Tower in a classic case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Both miscreants swore fealty to ISIS before heading out for their grisly work, though only Mr. Anzorov sent a video of the event to a dear friend in Idlib — Hayat Tahrir al Sham/al Nusra territory. The Moslem colonists who aided and abetted Mr. Anzorov’s project didn’t bother — just being Muslim was good enough for them…

Those who have been on trial on terrorism charges at a special court in Gay Paree since the end of November were accused, in some cases, of providing assistance to the perpetrator and, in others, of organizing a hate campaign online before the murder took place.

The 540-seat courtroom was packed for the verdict, which marked the final chapter of the Paty trial. Heavy surveillance was in place, with more than 50 coppers guarding the proceedings.

Seated in the front row was Paty’s 9-year-old son, accompanied by family members. As the lead judge, Franck Zientara, delivered sentences one after the other, emotions in the room ran high. Families of the accused reacted with gasps, cries, shouts, and ironic clapping, prompting the judge to pause multiple times and call for silence.

"They lied about my brother," shouted one relative. Another woman, sobbing, exclaimed, "They took my baby from me," before being escorted out by coppers.

The seven-judge panel met or went above most of the terms requested by prosecutors, citing "the exceptional gravity of the facts."

Naïm Boudaoud, 22,

…he spells his name in the French style, so is probably Moroccan or at least Francophone North African, too …

and Azim Epsirkhanov, 23,

… Chechnyan …

friends of the attacker, were convicted of complicity in murder and sentenced to 16 years in prison each. Neither can be paroled for two-thirds of their term, about 10 years. Boudaoud was accused of driving the attacker to the school, while Epsirkhanov helped him procure weapons.

Brahim Chnina, 52,

…Moroccan, may or may not have a half sister who emigrated to ISIS in Syria in 2014, but definitely has connected friends...

the Moslem father of the schoolgirl whose lies sparked the events leading to Paty’s death, was sentenced to 13 years for association with a terrorist enterprise. Prosecutors had sought 10 years for him.

Abdelhakim Sefrioui,

…65, Franco-Moroccan, founded the Cheikh Yassine Collective in 2004, which was dissolved a few days after Paty’s killing…

a Moslem preacher, was given 15 years for organizing a hate campaign online against Paty.

The shocking death of the 47-year-old teacher left an indelible mark on La Belle France, with several schools now named after him.

The trial had begun in late November. The defendants were accused of assisting a perpetrator or organizing a hate campaign online in the lead-up to the murder.

At the time of the attack, there were protests in many Moslem countries and calls online for violence targeting La Belle France and the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo
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. The newspaper had republished its caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad a few weeks before Paty’s death to mark the opening of the trial over deadly 2015 attacks on its newsroom by Islamic bully boys.

The cartoon images deeply offended many Moslems, who saw them as sacrilegious. But the fallout from Paty’s killing reinforced the French state’s commitment to freedom of expression and its firm attachment to secularism in public life.

Chnina’s daughter, who was 13 at the time, claimed that she had been excluded from Paty’s class when he showed the caricatures on Oct. 5, 2020.

Chnina sent a series of messages to his contacts denouncing Paty, saying that "this sick man" needed to be fired, along with the address of the school in the Gay Paree suburb of Conflans Saint-Honorine. In reality, Chnina’s daughter had lied to him and had never attended the lesson in question.

Paty was teaching a class mandated by the National Education Ministry on freedom of expression. He discussed the caricatures in this context, saying students who did not wish to see them could temporarily leave the classroom.

An online campaign against Paty snowballed, and 11 days after the lesson, Anzorov attacked the teacher with a knife as he walked home, and displayed the teacher’s head in a post on social media. Police later fatally shot Anzorov as he advanced toward them, armed.

Chnina’s daughter was tried last year in a juvenile court and given an 18-month suspended sentence. Four other students at Paty’s school were found guilty of involvement and given suspended sentences; a fifth, who pointed out Paty to Anzorov in exchange for money, was given a 6-month term with an electronic bracelet.

Sefrioui, the preacher on trial, had presented himself as a spokesperson for Imams of La Belle France although he had been dismissed from that role. He had filmed a video in front of the school with the father of the student. He referred to the teacher as a "thug" multiple times and sought to pressure the school administration via social media.

Some of the defendants expressed regrets and claimed their innocence on the eve of the verdict. They did not convince Paty’s family.

"It’s something that really shocks the family," lawyer Virginie Le Roy said ahead of the verdicts. "You get the feeling that those in the box are absolutely unwilling to admit any responsibility whatsoever."

"Apologies are pointless, they won’t bring Samuel back, but explanations are precious to us," Le Roy said. "We haven’t had many explanations of the facts."

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French teen apologizes at trial for lies that led to her teacher’s beheading

2024-11-27

[IsraelTimes] Samuel Paty was murdered in 2020 after teen’s father, Islamist activist spread her lies about the teacher kicking Muslims out of class, showing caricatures of prophet Mohammed

A teenager whose lies about her teacher are accused of contributing to the educator’s murder by an Islamist radical apologized to his family in a French court on Tuesday.

Eight people have been on trial since early November, charged with contributing to the climate of hatred that led to an 18-year-old of Chechen origin beheading teacher Samuel Paty outside Gay Paree in 2020.

They include Brahim Chnina, the 52-year-old Moroccan father of the adolescent testifying Tuesday.

Then aged 13, the adolescent falsely claimed that Paty had asked Moslem students to leave his classroom before showing caricatures of the prophet Mohammed.

She was not in the classroom at the time.

"I would like to apologize to the family," the 17-year-old, who has not been named, told the court. "I destroyed your lives, I am sorry."

Also on trial is Abdelhakim Sefrioui,

… he founded the pro-Hamas Cheikh Yassine Collective in 2004. It was dissolved a few days after Paty’s killing…

a 65-year-old French-Moroccan Islamist activist.

He and Chnina spread the teenager’s lies on social networks with the aim, according to the prosecution, of "designating a target," "provoking a feeling of hatred" and "thus preparing several crimes."

Both men have been in pre-trial detention for the past four years.

The teenager told the court that she lied to her mother to justify why she had been suspended from school for two days over her behavior and repeated absences.

"I was in panic and stress," she said. "I told her I had been in class and that I wasn’t happy with what went on there and that the teacher excluded me. That we looked at cartoons."

’I thought somebody would stop me’

Sefrioui posted a video describing Paty as a "teaching thug."

He also staged an "interview" with the teenager outside the school, whispering to her what to answer. The adolescent dutifully reiterated the falsehoods.

"I thought somebody would stop me in my lying, but nobody ever said that I wasn’t in class," she told the court Tuesday.

She stuck to her story even after Paty’s death. Only following her arrest and 30 hours of interrogation did she admit to Sherlocks that she had made it all up.

The teenager, whose delivery in court was matter-of-fact, showed emotion only when she talked about her father.

"Without my lies, none of us would be here," she said, sobbing. "I used my father’s naivete and kindness."
"And being a violent Islamic Asshole"
She added that "my father says you must always respect teachers," a remark that prompted an astonished "really?" interjected by the court’s presiding judge.

The teenager was sentenced to 18 months of probation in December 2023 after being convicted of slander.

Paty had used the Charlie Hebdo
...Pix/Hebdo2.pngA lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
magazine as part of an ethics class to discuss free speech laws in La Belle France, where blasphemy

...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
is legal and cartoons mocking religious figures have a long history.

His killing took place just weeks after Charlie Hebdo republished the Prophet Mohammed cartoons.

After the magazine used the images in 2015, Islamist button men stormed its offices, killing 12 people.

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Trial set to begin over beheading of French teacher who showed Muhammad cartoons

2024-11-05

[IsraelTimes] Eight facing judge on terror charges; main focus of trial is father of Muslim pupil and founder of pro-Hamas group who spread information against Samuel Paty

Eight people are going on trial in Gay Paree on terrorism charges Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic krazed killer after showing caricatures of Islam’s prophet to his middle school students for a lesson on freedom of expression.

Paty’s shocking death left an imprint on La Belle France, and several schools are now named after him. Paty was killed outside his school near Gay Paree on October 16, 2020, by an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, who was shot to death by police.

Those on trial include friends of assailant Abdoullakh Anzorov

… 26, the vicious petty criminal from Chechnya whose asylum request had just been renewed for another decade when he cut off the head of local teacher, just because he was asked. Among his many personal connections was known wolf Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, the Iranian-Frenchman who a year ago geared up with knife and hammer to attack tourists near the Eiffel Tower in a classic case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Both miscreants swore fealty to ISIS before heading out for their grisly work, though only Mr. Anzorov sent a video of the event to a dear friend in Idlib. The Moslem colonists who aided and abetted Mr. Anzorov’s project didn’t bother — just being Muslim was good enough for them…

who allegedly helped purchase weapons for the attack, as well as people who are accused of spreading false information online about the teacher and his class.

The attack occurred against a backdrop of protests in many Moslem countries and calls online for violence targeting La Belle France and the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo
...Pix/charlieHebdo.jpgA lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
. The newspaper had republished its caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad a few weeks before Paty’s death to mark the opening of the trial over deadly 2015 attacks on its newsroom by Islamic krazed killers.

The cartoon images deeply offended many Moslems, who saw them as sacrilegious. But the fallout from Paty’s killing reinforced the French state’s commitment to freedom of expression and its firm attachment to secularism in public life.

Much attention at the trial will focus on Brahim Chnina,

…52, Moroccan, may or may not have a half sister who emigrated to ISIS in Syria in 2014, but who definitely has connected friends...

the Moslem father of a 13-year-old girl who claimed that she had been excluded from Paty’s class when he showed the caricatures on October 5, 2020.

Chnina sent a series of messages to his contacts denouncing Paty, saying that "this sick man" needed to be fired, along with the address of the school in the Gay Paree suburb of Conflans Saint-Honorine.

In reality, Chnina’s daughter had lied to him and had never attended the lesson in question.

Paty was giving a Moral and Civic Education lesson mandated by the National Education Ministry on freedom of expression. He discussed the caricatures in this context, saying students who did not wish to see them could temporarily leave the classroom.

An online campaign against Paty snowballed, and 11 days after the lesson, Anzorov attacked the teacher with a knife as he walked home, and displayed the teacher’s head on social media. Police later shot Anzorov as he advanced towards them armed.

Chnina will be tried for alleged association with a terrorist enterprise for targeting the 47-year-old teacher through false information.

His daughter was tried last year in a juvenile court and given an 18-month suspended sentence. Four other students at Paty’s school were found guilty of involvement and given suspended sentences; a fifth, who pointed out Paty to Anzorov in exchange for money, was given a 6-month term with an electronic bracelet.

Abdelhakim Sefrioui

…65, Franco-Moroccan…

is another key figure in the trial opening Monday for the adult suspects. He presented himself as a spokesperson for Imams of La Belle France, although he had been dismissed from that role. He filmed a video in front of the school with the father of the student. He referred to the teacher as a "thug" multiple times and sought to pressure the school administration via social media.

Sefrioui founded the pro-Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
Cheikh Yassine Collective in 2004,

…another branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, or just the usual Islamist solidarity?

which was dissolved a few days after Paty’s killing. Sefrioui had long criticized and threatened Moslems who advocate friendship with Jews, including the rector of the Grand Mosque of Gay Paree.

Sefrioui and Chnina face 30 years in prison if convicted.

Chnina denied any incitement to "kill" in his messages and video, claiming he did not intend to incite hatred and violence, according to judicial documents.

Sefrioui’s lawyers have said they would seek his acquittal, and that the video filmed by Sefrioui in front of the school was not seen by the terrorist.

Anzorov, who had wanted to go to Syria to fight with Islamic murderous Moslems there, discovered Paty’s name on jihadist social media channels, according to Sherlocks. Anzorov lived 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Paty’s school and did not know the teacher.

Two of Anzorov’s friends face life imprisonment if convicted on charges of complicity in murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise. Naim Boudaoud

…22…

and Azim Epsirkhanov

…23, Chechnyan…

are accused of helping Anzorov buy a knife and a pellet gun. Boudaoud also drove Anzorov to Paty’s school. They turned themselves in at the cop shoppe, and deny being aware of the attacker’s intentions.

The other four individuals are charged with criminal terrorist conspiracy for communicating with the killer on pro-jihad Snapchat groups. They all deny being aware of the intent to kill Samuel Paty. One of them sent smiling emojis after the decapitated teacher’s head was shared.

On October 13, 2023, another teacher in LaBelle France was killed by a radical Islamist from Russia, originally from Ingushetia, a region bordering Chechnya.

The Daily Mail has more, courtesy of Skidmark, including a courtroom sketch of the miscreants, adding:

Four other defendants interacted with Anzorov online.

Yusuf Cinar, a 22-year-old Turkish national, shared a jihadist Snapchat account with him, that later published images of Paty's killing.

Ismail Gamaev, a 22-year-old Russian of Chechen origin with refugee status, and Louqmane Ingar, also 22, exchanged jihadist content on a Snapchat group with Anzorov. The first posted an image of Paty's head with smiley faces after the killing.

The only woman on trial is 36-year-old Priscilla Mangel, a Muslim convert who conversed with Paty's killer on X, describing the teacher's class as 'an example of the war waged by (France's) Republican institutions against Muslims'.

Six former secondary school pupils were sentenced in December 2023 to terms ranging from 14 months suspended to six months in prison, following a closed-door trial before the juvenile court. Those sentenced to prison, however, will not serve jail time.

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Britain

UK preacher who was arrested in free speech corner while debating Islam wins damages from police

2024-10-08

[FoxNews] Metropolitan Police of Greater London reportedly paid £10,000 in damages and legal costs to UK evangelist Hatun Tash

A female Christian evangelist in the United Kingdom who was arrested and strip searched by the police after conversing with Muslims in a famous free speech area, has reportedly won £10,000 in damages from the police for her ordeal, according to a press release from legal advocacy group Christian Concern.

Hatun Tash, a former Muslim who converted to Christianity, has preached the Bible and debated Muslims at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London, for over 10 years. On June 26, 2022, Tash was setting up her camera at Speakers' Corner, when a man ran up and stole her copy of the Quran, according to a legal threat sent by Tash's lawyer to The Metropolitan Police after her arrest. Tash used a Quran with holes in it during her preaching as a visual aid.

Another man reportedly held Tash's tripod and prevented her from chasing the thief. After Tash's friends called the emergency line, officers arrived and forcibly removed the preacher from the area as a growing crowd of men pursued her and shouted, "Allahu Akbar" while making attempts to assault her, the lawyer's letter said. The 2022 incident was also captured on video and recently made public on YouTube.

Tash's belongings were allegedly left by police at the scene. Her lawyer argued police violated her human rights after they "wrongfully detained" her for 15 hours, strip searched her, took her glasses and questioned her in the middle of the night.

Police told the Christian preacher she had been arrested for "criminal damage" due to her Quran, even though it was her property, as well as "intention to stir up racial hatred by use of threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior, or displays any written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting," because she was wearing a Charlie Hebdo t-shirt which depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to the lawyer's letter.

Tash's lawyers argued that her rights to freedom of expression, thought, conscience and religion had been breached under Articles 9 & 10 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). They sought damages for assault, wrongful arrest, unlawful imprisonment and harassment and legal fees, as well as an apology and agreement that the police would not "continue to harass her."

A settlement was recently reached, according to the Christian Legal Centre, and the Metropolitan Police.

"The Metropolitan Police has reached a settlement in relation to a proposed civil claim brought in relation to an arrest in 2022. We are not prepared to discuss details of the proposed claim or settlement further," a Met spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

Tash told Fox News Digital this isn't the first time she's experienced similar incidents with law enforcement at Speakers' Corner.

The former Muslim-turned-evangelist runs a ministry called "Defend Christ, Critique Islam." She has over 690,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel where she argues for Christianity and against the Islamic religion.

But her boldness in sharing her faith has made her a target for extremists. She has been stabbed, been the target of a terrorist plot, and wrongfully arrested multiple times at the free speech location over the past few years.

In her experience, the police have been lenient toward those who've threatened her and she says that has only emboldened more extremists to come after her. Like some others in Britain, she feels like there's an emerging "two-tier" justice system in the UK.

"Once Muslims kind of figured out, okay, nothing is happening, [once] they overstepped the law, then they started coming as mobs. So, like a group of ten, 20 of them simply would come and just harass me, making sure that I don't use my freedom of speech, making sure that I do not talk," she told Fox News Digital. "And every time there was tension, police would be the one concerned that they moved me or arrest me. None of those individuals ever were told off or told to be stopped. Police's approach was it is easier to remove me so that Muslim people can continue what they are doing."

"It's not only at Speakers' Corner. We get to see the same thing in schools," she said, explaining about a teacher who is still reportedly in hiding after showing a Mohammed cartoon to his class in 2021.

Despite these circumstances, she remains steadfast in her commitment to keep preaching.

"As long as the Lord gives me breath, I'm planning to preach the gospel because I think even though there are lots of negative things that are happening. For me, the solution is Jesus Christ. I saw how he transformed me. He will transform these individuals," she said.

Tash says she engages with imams at mosques and has seen approximately 20 imams who've left Islam and become Christians, as well as approximately 1,000 Muslims in England. On her YouTube platform, her ministry disciples hundreds of people from Muslim majority countries, she says.

"We are open to debates and discussions," she said. "It gives people to make their own choices, whether they want to be Muslim or they don't want to be Muslim, whether they want to become a Christian or not. So I have been someone who has been put in a place of privilege to see how my God steps in and changes and transforms lives. So, in that sense, I'm so grateful to the Lord."

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Pakistanis tried for incitement to kill Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders

2024-09-03

[IsraelTimes] High-security court tries in absentia religious leader Muhammed Ashraf Jalali and Saad Hussain Rizvi, head of hardline TLP party

Two Pak men stood trial in absentia Monday at a high-security court in the Netherlands over alleged attempts to incite the murder of far-right and anti-Islam Dutch leader Geert Wilders.

Dutch prosecutors have charged 56-year-old religious leader Muhammed Ashraf Jalali for calling on his followers to kill Wilders and promising they would be "rewarded in the afterlife."

Another man, Saad Hussain Rizvi, leader of the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) party, is suspected of urging followers to kill Wilders after Pak cricketer Khalid Latif was sentenced for incitement to murder him.

"This case has had a huge impact on me and my family," said Wilders, dressed in a dark suit, white shirt, and maroon tie.

"I’m asking this court to send a strong signal... that calling a fatwa in this country is unacceptable," he added.

The trial took place at a highly secure courthouse near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.

Neither of the men is believed to be in the country, and Pakistain has no extradition agreement with the Netherlands. Prosecutors said in a statement that requests they sent to Pak authorities seeking legal assistance to serve subpoenas on the two men were not executed.

Dutch authorities asked Islamabad for legal assistance to question the suspects and demand they appear in court.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
no treaty exists with Pakistain for mutual legal assistance. Neither man had legal representation present.

’DEATH THREATS’
In September last year, judges sentenced Latif to 12 years behind bars for incitement to murder Wilders after the firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
politician sought to arrange a competition for cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Wilders canceled the cartoon contest after protests broke out in Pakistain and he was inundated with death threats. He has been under 24-hour state protection since 2004.

The planned competition "caused a lot of unrest within the Moslem community. He (Wilders) received hundreds if not thousands of death threats," said the judge, who asked not to be identified.

In the Netherlands, the plan to stage the contest was widely criticized as needlessly antagonizing Moslems.

But the call to kill Wilders appeared to resonate, as a Pak man was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019 for plotting his liquidation in the wake of the canceled contest.

Wilders said in court he had planned the contest because "it’s unacceptable that you are not allowed freedom of speech... in countries where it is permitted by law."

"For the past 20 years I have been robbed of my freedom because of what I think, say, write, and do," said Wilders.

"Fatwas are the worst of all. They never go away. I still receive death threats on a daily basis," added the politician.

Wilders told judges of the impact of the threats on his life, that has been lived under intense security since 2004. Two armed military police sat in court throughout the brief trial.

"Every day you get up and leave for work in armored cars, often with sirens on, and you are always aware somewhere in the back of your mind that this could be your last day," Wilders told the court.

"I’m 60 now, I haven’t been free since I was 40," he added.

The public prosecutor called for Jalali to receive 14 years in prison. Six years were requested against Rizvi with a verdict expected on September 9.

"The aim of the suspect (Jalali) was to kill Wilders. He (Jalali) had great influence in Pakistain," alleged the prosecutor, who asked to remain anonymous.

"Unfortunately we see politicians being more and more threatened because of what they say and think."

The hardline TLP religious group is known for its massive street protests over blasphemy

...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
allegations that can paralyze cities for days.

It brought tens of thousands of people to the streets after Gay Paree-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...Pix/Hebdo2.pngA lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
republished cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in 2020.

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