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| Two Police Wounded by 'Islamist' on France's Reunion Island |
| 2017-04-29 |
| [AnNahar] A man suspected of being a radicalized Islamist shot and maimed two coppers on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion as they tried to arrest him on Thursday, authorities said. "The man refused to be locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and fired a rifle at police," a local government official on the island said, adding that the suspect -- a man in his 20s believed to be a recent convert to Islam -- was now in jug. The lives of the two officers are not in danger. The anti-terrorist department of the Gay Paree prosecutor's office is investigating the attack. The attack on Reunion comes a week after a French policeman was shot and killed and two others maimed on Gay Paree' Champs Elysses avenue. That attack was claimed by 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. A jihadist network, the first in a French overseas territory, was smashed in Reunion in June 2015. Its leader, a 21-year-old known as "The Egyptian", was arrested and transferred to Gay Paree. Authorities in Reunion estimate there are around 100 radicalised Islamists on the island. The local government official said Thursday's assailant was also "suspected of being radicalised". La Belle France's police union Unite SGP POLICE‐FO said it was "deeply shocked and angry after this new attack." It "shows that coppers are in danger throughout the national territory and not only in certain areas as judges would have us believe," it added. |
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