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2019-10-07 Europe
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France: Questions on Islamist Attack on Police Growing into Unrest
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[Guardian] Pressure on ministers to explain how warnings were missed before deadly attack.
Pressure is growing on France's government to explain how the radicalisation of a man who killed four colleagues at the Paris police headquarters failed to raise red flags inside the intelligence unit where he worked.
The interior minister, Christophe Castaner, summoned before two parliamentary committees this week, conceded there had been a "malfunction" as he promised to "tighten the net".
The minister came under fire after initially claiming that Mickaël Harpon, a 45-year-old computer expert employed in the intelligence unit at police headquarters in Paris, never gave the "slightest reason for alarm" before the rampage on Thursday.
Harpon had worked for the police since 2003.
Newspaper front pages on Monday described a "serious malfunction" in the intelligence community and "shortages" in the anti-terrorism machinery, as critics called for Castaner's head.
Err... his resignation I presume.
Harpon used a kitchen knife and an oyster knife to kill three police officials and an administrative staffer ‐ three men and a woman ‐ and injure two others in a 30-minute lunchtime attack that ended when he was shot in the head.
An oyster knife? Everyone knows eating shellfish is haram!
| Shellfish are not kosher, but I believe they are permitted to Muslims. It’s pork that both groups are forbidden. |
It emerged he had converted to Islam 18 months ago,
and had then been in contact with adherents of Salafism, an ultra-conservative branch of Sunni Islam.
"Really they're no different than Alabama methodists, M'sieurs ! Just islamic. We had no idea !"
He had caused alarm among colleagues as far back as 2015 when he defended the massacre of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris by two brothers vowing allegiance to al-Qaida. No report was filed, however.
"There was no alert at the right level at the right time," Castaner told France Inter radio on Monday. "The warning signals should have been sufficient to unlock a thorough investigation."
He added: "I want for any warning sign to be automatically flagged."
Castaner, who said on Sunday he would not resign over the matter
"Non, M'sieurs... Absolument pas !
Why in fact, I'm needed even more now !"
, has been summoned to appear before parliament's intelligence committee on Tuesday.
"We're going to try to find out what these failings were," the committee's chairman, Christian Cambon, said on Sunday.
And they let the wife go. Read the whole thing over at The Guardian.
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