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| French court acquits man accused of hiding Paris attackers | |
| 2018-02-15 | |
The presiding judge said the Gay Paree court found Jawad Bendaoud, 31, a confirmed street criminal, not guilty of providing lodging to two of the attackers and helping them hide from police when they were the most-wanted criminals in La Belle France. Addressing Bendaoud at a verdict hearing, Judge Isabelle Prevost-Desprez said the evidence was "insufficient to prove your guilt." Bendaoud, who was standing behind a glass-enclosed dock, blew kisses to the public and his lawyers upon hearing of his acquittal. He faced up to six years in prison if he was convicted of harboring terrorists. Bendaoud denied knowing the identity of the men to whom he rented a small flat in Saint-Denis. One of the two men he sheltered was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the Gay Paree attacks. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 The buildings started out condemned, Raj — and some were apparently abandoned. Where is shit on that scale? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-15 10:30 |
| #4 One shudders to think what happened to his condemned properties and his income during the three years he sat in jail since his arrest. Most likely a relative (read - older brother) kept it afloat as a de facto property manager, or it all went to shit and got sold in the proverbial fire sale. There's very little middle ground in this one. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-02-15 01:49 |
| #3 TW - I missed the link, so thanks for that. I'm quite familiar with rental properties, so I tend to think along the lines of, for instance, 10% down on a property, a picture of the house in question and all that. Maybe he's in a shithole section of that otherwise fine Paris suburb (even in Quincy, MA!), it didn't seem to make a lot a lot of sense unless the cash he was taking was a phenomenal amount, and I think that's the missing part. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-02-15 01:44 |
| #2 Click on his name to see the articles about him in the Rantburg archive, Raj. According an earlier article about this drug dealer, Bendaoud, who has a long criminal record, said he had previously rented the grubby flat to Eastern European gangsters without asking questions. And he’d rented this particular apartment to several of his countrymen for a three-day period. Providing temporary hideouts to gangsters is no doubt a lucrative business, given the evident risk he ran. One shudders to think what happened to his condemned properties and his income during the three years he sat in jail since his arrest. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-15 00:38 |
| #1 I'm trying to square 'confirmed street criminal' with a 31 year-old property owner in a fairly pricey Paris suburb. Anyone? Ferris? |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-02-15 00:09 |