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"Swedish" terrorist who attacked French police with hammer was a journalist and received the EU Commission's award for a report on illegal immigrants
2017-06-08
More on this story from yesterday.
[FriaTider] It was the award-winning SR journalist Farid Ikken, 40, who was shot by police on Tuesday after attacking a policeman with a hammer in Paris, Free Times can reveal today. As a journalist in Sweden, Iken received the EU Commission's journalist award for a crash report on illegal immigrants.

The iken, who came from Algeria, came to France in 2014. Before that he had lived for several years in Sweden, where he took his master's degree and also freed for several Swedish media in 2009 and 2010. It states 40-year-old supervisor, Professor Arnaud Mercier At Université Panthéon-Assas, in an interview with French LCI.

- He worked as a journalist in Stockholm and Algeria, says Mercier to the TV channel.

A person who called himself "Massip Farid Ikken" and claimed to be berber from Algeria worked during the current period as a journalist on, among others, Sweden's Radio, UNT and the contributed-financed magazine magazine Fria Tidningen.

In 2009 , he won "The EU Commission's National Journalist Prize Against Discrimination" for an article on illegal immigrants in the People in Bild.

"Massip Farid's article deals with asylum seekers who are not entitled to medical care and who are therefore forced to seek medical care, as well as the healthcare staff and others who still provide healthcare to asylum seekers," the European Commission wrote in the statement.

According to information in the French media, Farid Ikken is married to a Swedish woman.
English text courtesy of google translate.
An Nahar adds:
A man who attacked a policeman with a hammer outside Notre Dame cathedral in Gay Paree had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in a video, it emerged Wednesday.

The video in which the man pledges allegiance to IS was found by police who searched the apartment he was renting in Cergy outside the French capital, the source said.

Documents found on the attacker identified him as a 40-year-old Algerian student doing a doctorate on the media at a university in eastern La Belle France.

The suspect's thesis director at the University of Lorraine, where he enrolled in 2014, said he had showed "no outward sign of an excessive adherence to Islam."

"When I knew him, he had a pro-Western, pro-democratic outlook," Arnaud Mercier, who said he had not heard from the suspect since November, told the French television channel BFMTV.
Posted by:Bright Pebbles

#10  From Bright Pebbles' Daily Mail article:

He had no criminal record, but had regularly expressed his interest in jihad on the Internet, and had covered terrorism while working for various news outlets in his native Algeria.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-06-08 22:39  

#9  "Berbers loath the Arabs" Berbers or Kabyles, if they are not Christians are far worse maniacs muslims than most ay-rabs...
Posted by: Snoting Tojo4355   2017-06-08 21:14  

#8  Another JournoList killed in a war zone. When Oh When will the war on media stop?
Posted by: Frank G   2017-06-08 11:39  

#7  "When I knew him, he had a pro-Western, pro-democratic outlook,"

Well spies, assassins and infiltrators all have that look about 'em.

Right up until they fuck you.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-06-08 11:34  

#6  Of course in reality they aren't normal members of society, they are just portrayed that way by the media desperate to have more Muslim 'heroes'.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-06-08 11:23  

#5  It's like a spy movie. Totally normal members of society until that code word is whispered into their ear and then they become assassins.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-06-08 11:23  

#4  DMail article
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-06-08 09:57  

#3  Doesn't quite add up. Berbers loath the Arabs. And ISIS is quintessentially Arab.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-06-08 09:38  

#2  Consider it a twofer.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-06-08 09:07  

#1  Yes, but was he well shot?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-06-08 00:29  

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