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Paris knife attacker who killed 4 in police headquarters had converted to Islam
2019-10-04
Follow up to yesterday's breaking report.
[NYPOST] The deranged employee who stabbed four people to death ‐ including three cops ‐ inside a Gay Paree police headquarters had converted to Islam 18 months ago, according to a report.

The 45-year-old deaf IT worker ‐ identified in media reports as Michael Harpon attacked three members of the police force’s intelligence division Thursday inside two ground floor offices, then went into a stairwell and assaulted two women, French newspaper Le Gay Pareeien reported.

One of the women survived and underwent emergency surgery after the attacks. She was listed at death's door.

The attacker was bumped off in a courtyard at the police facility by an officer described as a young "police trainee."

Harpon, a native of the island of Martinique, married in 2014, and he and his wife lived in a quite suburb north of Gay Paree, according to Le Gay Pareeien.

He converted to Islam 18 months ago but neighbors told local news hounds that there were no signs he was radicalized ‐ nor are police in Gay Paree treating the incident as a terrorist attack.

French authorities took the man’s wife into custody in the aftermath of the grisly attack, according to CNN.

The fifth victim in the stabbing was at death's door and underwent surgery Thursday.

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Posted by:Fred

#18  "Now, she says he was hearing odd voices and seeing things."

Just like Mohammed!
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-10-04 20:20  

#17  #15 Timing is everything Dron. Right now timing is wrong.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-04 17:58  

#16  History says you should.
Posted by: jvalentour   2019-10-04 17:56  

#15  TW, Soura is a small community residential half a klick west of the Leh-Srinagar highway, situated on Anchar lake. It's a pretty little place but home to some of the most pig-headed muslims and host Pakistain infiltrated mujahids who cross into Kashmir. Also called the Gaza of Kashmir, as if that's an achievement. We're not allowed to go in there, and they'll stone us if we approach.

Many jihadists are holed up in there, behind families and facades of normal homes and schools. They've declared themselves 'independent' for the 740th time and have barricaded their village with stuff. Because those living here are the most radicalized of all in Kashmir, it is probable we'd have to do something ... unsavory to a large number of people.

So, there's constant brainstorming about how best to break their will and mainstream these bastards, without appearing like bad guys. One reason may be the fact that it's also the home constituency of the Abdullahs, the original dynasts who have ruled Kashmir for decades before the left lost power to outright secessionists. But, I really don't know why we can't just kill 'em all.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-10-04 17:12  

#14  The trouble in Soura

I think we must have missed that one... or I did while visiting trailing daughter #2 and her husband. What happened, Dron66046?
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-10-04 16:26  

#13  I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
Posted by: Roth LaDoad   2019-10-04 13:17  

#12  More like rolling of eyes at the padding of the job.

"Oh well... might as well fingerprint 'em. Who knows they may tun into regular Saracen raiders one day ? Err... keep it up fellas !"
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-10-04 13:12  

#11  and hilarity ensued?
Posted by: Frank G   2019-10-04 13:06  

#10  A good fortnight's work. Bravo.
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-04 13:03  

#9  Thanks, guys ! Oh, I was never in any danger. A lot of boat rides and kebabs. Some slapping of indigent louts that local incompetents assured us were surely warmongering kaliphs from Afghanistan. Goose chase, that sort of thing.

A report ?

Contrary to popular news, the locals are quite happy with the integration thingy, their only issue is with the inability to watch netflicks and video call uncle Abdul in Dubai. The state boundaries will be redrawn soon, creating different administrative divisions and public service corporations. This should allow for last-mile reach of many hitherto unavailable services to most people, including the thin long arm of the law. /sarc

About a hundred children were 'detained', yes. They were fed, clothed and put in a nice playschool with psychiatrists and toys after they were found wandering, begging in the streets and offering to throw stones for islamists at Rs. 10 per projectile. Heartless.

The trouble in Soura shall shortly be taken care of. We're treating it with sensitivity and in a rather humane way. We won't rush in guns blazing. The plan for now is to simply starve them, and make them watch their near-district neighbours avail of public services.

Top secessionist leaders' accounts were seized and their properties, any capital accrued for their NGOs, all appropriated by the central govt. All of it designated as illegal and part of terror financing networks, even grannies' piggybanks taken away. The Andrabi lady's money is gone POOf ! Top Hurriyat leaders are now destitute. Not that they'll need money in jail. I wonder who shall pay the burqa-ed freedom fighter's son's school fee in Australia. Oh well...

A number of louts were roaming in the valley shooting up and threatening people not to open their shops or send kids to school, so as to give an impression a lá Xinjiang. Some of these shall never be seen again, some are in jail indefinitely. Two govt owned holiday resorts full of dissident nuisances are being investigated slowly, there cases shall keep the public prosecutors entertained for another decade or so.

So there. Hmmm... rather eventful in retrospect.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-10-04 13:01  

#8  Glad you're safe and sound, Dron. Welcome back
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-04 12:09  

#7  Welcome back, Dron
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-04 11:56  

#6  Oop sorry, Frank ! Some mod please erase it... ?
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-10-04 11:51  

#5  Dron66046 please keep the "chimps" and similar language out? Some read this site at work and could face IT actions

Thank you
Posted by: Frank G   2019-10-04 11:49  

#4  Michael Harpon, 45 year old ni ...err, wakandan IT guy was (affirmatively) given a police job by Gay Paree 16 years ago.Attention, s'il vous plaît ! les personnes aveugles, sourdes et handicapées sont nécessaires au travail de la police.
In 2014, he married wakandan muslim Ilham Edibbe Yupp ! who radicalized him over a period of 4 years, while bearing him a brood of future crazies, two I believe. Now, she says he was hearing odd voices and seeing things.
I should think a deaf man'd be pretty pleased to hear anything, innit ? But nope. A Beethoven he was not.
Since 2018 he was probably mustering up the ingrate gall needed to shit upon the country and the people that he'd worked with for years. He had been actively posting to and delving into the facebook journals of fellow mullah chimps black islamic revolutionaries from Mogadishu to Khartoum. He got an undetectable ceramic knife through mandatory checking into the premises, and ... did his thing, his stuff.

Terrorism is being denied by the police but the wife is under investigation by the French DGSI, it is believed to have an ISIS connection, which is why she's been detained for now.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-10-04 11:42  

#3  Can I call them, or what?

You certainly did. But to be fair, I think that was where the smart money was going. We seen dis movie before. At least N times.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-10-04 10:56  

#2  Oh, yeah sure - move right the fuck over, Nostradamus!
Posted by: Raj   2019-10-04 09:43  

#1  Can I call them, or what?

Jean-Marc Bailleul, a police union leader, described the incident as criminal rather than an act of "terror" and they don't give out attacker's name.

Any questions 'Burghers?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-04 01:35  

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