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Freed to kill more police: Isis terrorist who shot dead policeman and wounded two others on the Champs-Elysees was jailed for 20 years for trying to kill officers - but released early
2017-04-21
Day 2 of the latest jihad adventure. Day 1 can be reviewed here.
[DailyMail]
  • The killer is alleged to have used messaging app Telegram to talk about desire to attack police

  • ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, and a terror probe has opened

  • Killer has been named as Karim C, amid reports he had previously been jailed for shooting at police

  • One police officer was killed and two others were seriously injured Thursday evening
A killer who rubbed out one police officer and seriously injured two others in Gay Paree Thursday evening had previously been incarcerated
Please don't kill me!
 for opening fire on law enforcers, and talked of his desire to kill police on social media.

The 39-year-old, named in reports as Karim C, and using the alias 'Abu Yousuf the Belgian' made dark threats on messaging app Telegram, it has been claimed.

He was convicted for a 2001 shooting which left two coppers seriously injured, according to reports, and was given a 20 year jail term.

French authorities have confirmed that the shooting close to the Champs Elysees was a 'targeted' attack, and prosecutors have opened a terrorism probe.

ISIS has grabbed credit for the attack, which was carried out with a Kalashnikov weapon. A passerby was also injured.

French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
 has said he is convinced that the attack was 'terror related', and will hold a security cabinet meeting in the morning.

The gunman was rubbed out at the scene.

The French-born killer lived in Chelles, a commuter town close to Gay Paree in the Seine-et-Marne department.

In 2003 he was sentenced to 20 years inside a high security prison following the attacks in Roissy-en-Brie, also in Seine-et-Marne. But he was let out early following an appeal ruling, giving him the freedom to carry out tonight's attack.

Karim C was the registered keeper of the grey Audi used in tonight's attack. A raid on his home later found guns and ammunition, said intelligence sources.

He had targeted a parked patrol car full of traffic control officers working to the Gay Paree prefecture. The officer killed was at the wheel and was having an evening snack at the time ofhis death.

French television network BFMTV reports that he had used the Telegram internet messaging service, which bandidos snuffies have previously been claimed to favour because of its encryption.

Pierre-Henry Brandet, front man for La Belle France's Interior Ministry said 'all lines of investigation were being pursued', while intelligence sources said the dead assailant was a known radical on a so-called S-file, for 'State-security'. This means he would have been under surveillance, because he was a known risk to the country.
The Telegraph adds:
The gunman had recently been detained for questioning in a cop shoppe in Meaux, outside Gay Paree, after "informants" had indicated that he was "seeking to obtain weapons to kill coppers", according to reports.

But due to a lack of evidence, anti-terror prosecutors "let him go".

A police document obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named identifies the address searched in the town of Chelles as the family home of Karim Cheurfi, a 39-year-old with a police record.

Police tape surrounded the quiet, middle-class neighborhood in Chelles early on Friday, and worried neighbors expressed surprise at the searches.

There were unconfirmed reports last night that an arrest warrant had been issued for a second suspect who had arrived in Gay Paree from Belgium.
Update at 11:35 a.m. EDT: Yesterday's Telegraph liveblog has continued updating, and is a much better source for efficiently learning the latest developments than the Daily Mail, though the latter ends up with more interesting details. The summary at 2:00 p.m. (Greenwich Time) is a good place to start.

Summary of the summary: ISIS literature was found at Mr. Cheurfi's mother's house in Chelles; three of his relatives have been taken in for questioning; there's a manhunt for his presumed associate, named as Youssouf El Osri, who is not the man they originally thought he was -- that man turned himself in to police earlier and was released; and, Marine Le Pen announced that she wants to close the borders and expel everyone on the terror watchlist immediately. May the rest of today be quieter around the world.

Link.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  Whoops! The above was me, mid-experiment.

To continue:

Ebbuger Angolunter6603, all you have to do is open a comment, put your preferred name/nym in the Your Name box on the left, and make a comment or even leave the comment box blank when you click Submit. That should reset your cookie as it just did for me. :-)

If that does not work, please let us know.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-04-21 13:22  

#7   Ebbuger Angolunter6603, all you have to do is open a comment, put your preferred name/nym in the
Posted by: Jereck Slomogum8860   2017-04-21 13:17  

#6  How do I get past the spambot filter? I used to auto login but now you don't know me.
Posted by: Ebbuger Angolunter6603   2017-04-21 11:49  

#5  You think after the same results time and time again people would learn... but that would require free thought and logic. Something that has been bred/schooled out of most of the population.

Posted by: DarthVader   2017-04-21 09:20  

#4  g(r)om you've got it. It is what they are which determines what they do.

Does this lock things up for LePen?
Posted by: AlanC   2017-04-21 08:30  

#3  Nope. It's what they are - even when they don't do anything.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-04-21 06:22  

#2  Have we learned nothing about these people? It is what they do.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-04-21 04:59  

#1  Why I'm not surprised?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-04-21 01:08  

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