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| 'Daesh Landlord' in the Dock in First Paris Attacks Trial | |
| 2018-01-25 | |
Bendaoud, 31, became a national laughing stock after a television interview in which he came across as clueless, insisting "I didn't know they were terrorists." It provided a rare reason to laugh after the deadliest attacks in La Belle France since World War II, spawning endless parodies on the internet mocking his apparent naivety. Bendaoud stands accused of lending his apartment to Abdelhamid Abaaoud -- a senior 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.... jihadist suspected of coordinating the attacks that killed 130 people -- and his accomplice Chakib Akrouh. The court will seek to determine whether Bendaoud actively conspired in helping the pair to hide out or whether he got caught up in events unknowingly. Anti-terror police potted Abaaoud, Akrouh, and Abaaoud's cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen in a ferocious assault on the apartment on November 18, five days after the attacks. Bendaoud gave his now infamous interview to BFM television just as armed officers were surrounding the apartment in the gritty Saint-Denis suburb north of Gay Paree. "Someone asked me for a favour, I helped them out," he said, adding that all he knew was that they were from Belgium and wanted access to water and a place to pray. "I was asked to give accommodation to two people for three days and I did the favor," said the bespectacled Bendaoud, wearing a leather jacket with his hair gelled back. "If I'd known, do you really think I would have hosted them?" The clip became a viral sensation, with internet users mocking his apparent lack of curiosity about his guests, at a time when a huge manhunt had been launched for jihadists. The press nicknamed Bendaoud the "ISIS landlord" after another name for IS, and his own lawyer Xavier Nogueras described him as "the one we laughed about, having cried so much." - How much did he know? - The case will turn on what Bendaoud, a Saint-Denis native with a long criminal record, knew about the men. He was previously sentenced to eight years in jail for killing a man in a fight over a mobile phone, and was released in 2013. Bendaoud will go on trial alongside his friend Mohammed Soumah as well as Youssef Aitboulahcen, the brother of the woman killed in the raid on the apartment. Ten heavily armed jihadists attacked the national stadium, bars and restaurants in Gay Paree as well as the Bataclan concert venue on the night of November 13 in attacks claimed by IS. Before they were killed in the raid on the apartment, Abaaoud and Akrouh were suspected of preparing a suicide kaboom on the French capital's La Defense business district. Only one of the Gay Paree button men survived. Salah Abdeslam was tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! in Belgium four months after the attacks and transferred to La Belle France, where he has refused to cooperate with Sherlocks. He is to go on trial in Belgium on February 5 over a shootout with police that left several officers maimed but led to his capture. Around 15 people are in jug or being sought by police as part of the sprawling French probe into the Gay Paree attacks which has taken Sherlocks to Belgium, Morocco and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 One man's terrorist is another mans leather-jacket gel-slick slum-landlord petty thug |
| Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar 2018-01-25 06:35 |