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2018-02-15 Europe

French court acquits man accused of hiding Paris attackers

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-02-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#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|| 2018-02-15 00:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-02-15 00:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-02-15 01:44|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-02-15 01:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-02-15 10:30|| Front Page Top

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