The perpetrator of the Bayonne mosque attack had studied and done his military service in Morocco, then under French protectorate. At the time, he had wanted to obtain Moroccan nationality. In his book entitled "France with an Open Heart or Human Misery", he talks about his childhood and his tendency towards Islamophobia.
The Prefecture of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques has provided some information on the two septuagenarians seriously injured during the attack on the Bayonne mosque. Their lives are no longer in danger.
While Emmanuel Macron firmly condemned the attack on the Bayonne mosque and promises that Muslims will be protected, the dignitaries of Islam call on the faithful to be "extremely vigilant".
While Claude S., an octogenarian, was about to set fire to the door of the Bayonne mosque on Monday, October 28, he was surprised by two men who intervened. He did not hesitate to shoot at them.
The double prison sentence handed down against Hassan El Haski, sentenced to 14 years in prison in Spain for the March 11, 2004 attacks in Madrid, has been upheld. This is the decision of the Criminal Chamber (2nd degree) in charge of terrorism cases at the annex of the Court of Appeal of Salé, which rejected the terrorist’s defense request.
27 officers from the Paris Police Prefecture have been reported for radicalization, following the attack that took place on October 3. To recall, 4 people had been killed by Mickaël Harpon, a computer scientist, agent of the Police Prefecture, who turned out to be radicalized.
After receiving death threats, Ahmed Hilali, the former imam of the Gonesse mosque in Val d’Oise, which was attended by Mickaël Harpon, the assailant of the Paris Police Headquarters, filed a complaint on Monday, October 21, his lawyer announced.
Surveillance camera footage released by the Belgian federal police traces the course of a grenade attack targeting the home of a Moroccan family in the Antwerp region of Belgium.
French police officers are torn between fears and suspicions. Since the attack committed on October 3 by one of their colleagues converted to Islam at the Paris Police Headquarters, Muslim agents, in particular, live in fear. The hierarchy has started a purge.
A 35-year-old Moroccan imam, described as "fundamentalist" and a preacher of hatred, is accused of having incited Mickaël Harpon to commit the massacre at the Paris Police Headquarters. Subject of an expulsion measure in 2015, canceled by the Residence Permit Commission, the man is now on the "S" watchlist.
The Judicial Police Brigade of the provincial district of the Sûreté de Khémisset arrested a 25-year-old individual on Thursday, September 19. He would be involved in a case of kidnapping, sequestration, and indecent assault against two minors.
Nacer Bendrer’s sentence has been upheld. This is the decision of the Court of Cassation, which last Wednesday rejected the appeal filed by the interested party against the judgment of the Brussels Assize Court. We remember that the latter had sentenced Nacer, last March, to 15 years in prison in the trial of the attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium.