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Title: Paris Muslim who killed policeman, shot two others just days before French election was released EARLY from 20-year sentence for trying to kill cops
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Pamela Geller
URL Source: http://pamelageller.com/2017/04/dra ... entence-trying-kill-cops.html/
Published: Apr 21, 2017
Author: Pamela Geller
Post Date: 2017-04-21 08:26:52 by HomerBohn
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Views: 6511
Comments: 31
Dramatic video captures French police shooting dead terrorist who killed officer and wounded two others just days before French election – as it’s revealed he was released EARLY from 20 year sentence for trying to kill cops (By Abe Hawken and Amie Gordon For Mailonline and Peter Allen In Paris for MailOnline, 20 April 2017) A policeman was shot dead while two other officers were seriously injured by a Kalashnikov-wielding gunman on the Champs Elysees in central Paris – just three days before the French presidential election. The alleged ISIS gunman, identified as 39-year-old Karim C – who was jailed for 20 years for trying to kill officers in 2001 – parked his Audi and opened fire after police stopped at a red light on the world famous avenue. French police said the attack was probably a ‘terrorist act’ and dramatic video footage captured the moment police shot at the assailant, who later died. Police have now launched a desperate manhunt for a second suspect after heavily armed officers flooded the area in the heart of the French capital. Officers have been searching the home of the alleged shooter – who was known to security services and had been flagged as an ‘extremist’ – in east Paris and he had previously said that he ‘wanted to kill police’. The fatal incident unfolded as presidential candidates, including National Front party leader Marine Le Pen, debated on a TV show nearby before Sunday’s election. French presidential election candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon took part in the TV show as the nearby attack happenedFrench newspaper Le Parisien named the attacker as Karim C, who used the alias ‘Abu Yousuf the Belgian’, and reportedly made threats to kill police using the social media app Telegram, an instant messaging service. Karim was born in France and lived in Chelles, a commuter town close to Paris and was jailed for the 2001 attack – but is believed to have been released early in 2016. The gunman has been identified by police but they will not officially reveal his name until investigators determine whether he had accomplices, according to the Paris prosecutor. Francois Molins said: ‘The identity of the attacker is known and has been checked. I will not give it because investigations with raids are ongoing. ‘The investigators want to be sure whether he had or did not have accomplices.’ The Interior Ministry spokesman said the officers were deliberately targeted and the police union added that the policeman was killed while sat in a car at a red light. US President Donald Trump said: ‘It looks like another terrorist attack. What can you say? It never ends.’ ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack and dramatic video footage showed the immediate aftermath of the incident which left one policeman dead. In the video, posted on Twitter, several figures can be seen moving around next to a police van on the Champs Elysees. One of the figures then appeared to fall to the ground and a silver car – believed to have been used by the suspects – can be seen parked next to the van. Police have issued an arrest warrant for a second suspect – a man understood to have arrived in France by train from Belgium. French President Francois Hollande said the attack was ‘terrorist related’ and scheduled an emergency meeting following the shootings on Thursday evening. French prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation. Mr Hollande said a national tribute will be paid to the policeman and added that a ‘passerby was hit’ before the ‘assailant was neutralised’. Poster Comment: Heinous butchery like this will insure Marine LePen's victory which will be a victory for the French people and another death knell for Merkel's EU. US and Europe's Muslim murderers are 'under surveillance' or known to 'security services' who do nothing until the vile piece of Muslim filth murders people. By now it should be evident that at some point they will murder someone, so why not find a pretext to lock him up or get them out of the country? What a pity rogue elements don't arise within police ranks, who quietly 'take out' a Muslim on police radar. By now if even the most bleeding of hearts doesn't see what a danger ALL Muslims are to a society then we are, indeed, lost. Moderate Muslims? No such thing. They all read the same damned book that instructs them to kill us. While the terrorist is sawing off our heads with a scimitar, the 'moderate' is holding down our feet so we don't wiggle around and spoil the cut.
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#1. To: HomerBohn, Vicomte13 (#0)
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You would think so. I think the fear of a Le Pen win will drive up voter turnout to vote for one of the two "moderate" candidates. Without France, the EU falls apart. And the Euro too. And without the EU and the Euro, the French are just a powerless unimportant little tourist stop. Le Pen's only hope is that the commie candidate (recently surging) can end up in the runoff with her. Faced with an impractical loon communist in the final round, she would win. Otherwise, it will be the usual Lucy-grabbing-the-football outcome for Le Pen. After Trump's big win, never say never. But a Le Pen win would be a bigger surprise to me than the Brexit outcome.
Without the EU and the Euro, GERMANY collapses utterly - their economy is literally BUILT on exports. France's is not. Le Pen will not simply tear up the European Union. She will SUBORDINATE the EU to the democracies that compose it. The current "European Union" is a Lincolnian model. Le Pen's model is a "European Confederacy", not a return to 1913.
Maybe. But I don't see the French voters giving her a chance to. French voters almost never turn to the Right in the last century. They never had a Thatcher and even Sarkozy was no Thatcher type. Le Pen is bigger now than her dad ever was but I don't see anything here to help her over the top. And FN has underperformed in regional elections, leaving a Le Pen presidency very weak, perhaps helpless, in the French parliament. A big massacre, like the truck attack in Nice, just before the second-round election might put her over the top though.
Or, simply continue the current Etat de Siege, under which the French authorities can raid any house and inspect it. They have raided thousands of Muslim houses, found hundreds of weapons and made hundreds of arrests as a result. In a state of siege, civil privacy is suspended and the government can intrude on whatever space it sees fit, through executive action (unreviewed by any court, and not subject to judicial intervention). If Le Pen is interested in breaking the terrorists and driving hostile elements out of the country, she can easily do so by invoking extraordinary Presidential powers to deal with security threats. There's no mechanism to prevent her from doing this other than the next election. So, if the political opposition attempts the French equivalent of a filibuster and refuses to acknowledge the existence of the President, the fact of repeated terrorist attacks simply allows the President to assume plenary power, at least for periods of time, to enforce security provisions and deport people. And nothing prevents her from doing it again and again and again. The sort of "absolute block" of the executive that can be achieved in the American system by the filibuster in Congress and judicial review cannot be achieved in France. In "emergencies" the French President always has the power to take whatever steps HE thinks are necessary, and these acts are not subject to any review other than voting him out of office at the next election. If the people elect Marine Le Pen and the French legislature tries to behave like a filibustering American Congress, they will soon be screaming that she has become a dictator, because she WILL become a dictator, if necessary, to enforce her will on key things. If the French people vote her in, they are angry, and the legislature will listen to them, because in the French system, the President is much like the Supreme Court in America. In America, the Supreme Court has the final word, but in the French system, the President has the final authority to act and decide. The British elect MPs, who choose a Prime Minister, who is limited by the majority in Parliament. The Americans elect a President, who is ultimately limited by the Supreme Court. But the French elect a King they call "le President", who in normal times presides while the Prime Minister practices politics, but who in times of crisis becomes the ruling monarch. And the President has the authority to determine when such a crisis exists. The Conseil d'Etat - the Supreme Court for matters involving the government - has declared that it does not have the power to review the existence of a crisis, that that authority reposes in the President alone. To attempt to ignore a French President in the French system is to play with fire. The opposition, even if they control Parliament, HAS TO keep the politics to a low boil, because if anything overheats and goes into the streets, the President, alone and without review, commands all of the state security forces, and the President has the sovereign power to determine when an "emergency" exists. Partisan gridlock has to be tempered in the French system. And since all politicians everywhere are corrupt, the fact that virtually any leader can be brought down by the President through a secret investigation and exposure of wrongdoing, followed by dismissal (the French President CAN dismiss the Prime Minister, and does not HAVE to appoint the Prime Minister from the dominant party - they DO, precisely because French politics have to be played delicately, given the hard power that is wired into the offices). As far as the French voters not "turning" to the Right, the French are customarily already ON the Right. De Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard, Chirac, Sarkozy - these were all men of the Right. Mitterand was of the Left, but a World War II leftist, not a Marxist. Hollande is of the Left, and he has been an abject failure as President too. The French reliably put men of the Right in charge of the armed forces, intelligence, national security, the police and investigative services. And in France, government industries ARE of the Right. The Kings were the operators of the biggest industries in France in their day, and private enterprise has always been in second position to the large state-run enterprises, going all the way back to the dawn of the modern economy with Louis XII. The Revolutionary legacy is really one of social solidarity: universal health insurance, pensions, education - the fundamental supports of life so that everybody lives as a middle class (and therefore not violently revolutionary) Frenchmen. This thought process is well over 200 years old, and is not Leftist in any meaningful sense. It's pretty damned conservative, really, if you're trying to conserve that particular way of life and government. Where the French have gotten "Lefty" is in terms of social tolerance, immigration, and a resentment of the corruption of the super-rich. The latter is probably a permanent feature of a country whose upper crust used to live very visibly apart in places like Versailles, Chambord and the Louvre, and who still live in stunning chateaux. The differential grates, just like having to walk through First Class before seating in Economy class is one of the strongest indicators of flights that have unruly passengers. People don't like to FEEL the differential, and in airplanes, and France, you FEEL it, because it's right there in your face. THAT pushes a politics of envy. But the features of the American Left, the "dismantle the army and embrace Castro!" types - they never get power in France, not ever. France is a more systematically Right-wing country in its bones than America. Those are socially conservative people.
#7. To: Vicomte13 (#6)
If the French people vote her in, they are angry, and the legislature will listen to them, because in the French system, the President is much like the Supreme Court in America. In America, the Supreme Court has the final word, but in the French system, the President has the final authority to act and decide. Which is why I don't think the French voters will give her a chance. Unless there is a massacre fresh in their minds. Le Pen will always be a bridesmaid, never a bride. I wish it was otherwise.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestHeinous butchery like this will insure Marine LePen's victory which will be a victory for the French people and another death knell for Merkel's EU.
#2. To: Tooconservative (#1)
I think the fear of a Le Pen win will drive up voter turnout to vote for one of the two "moderate" candidates. Without France, the EU falls apart. And the Euro too. And without the EU and the Euro, the French are just a powerless unimportant little tourist stop.
#3. To: Vicomte13 (#2)
Le Pen's model is a "European Confederacy", not a return to 1913.
#6. To: Tooconservative (#3)
Replies to Comment # 6. If the people elect Marine Le Pen and the French legislature tries to behave like a filibustering American Congress, they will soon be screaming that she has become a dictator, because she WILL become a dictator, if necessary, to enforce her will on key things.
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