France: Muslim migrant prison screams ‘What is happening, you asked for it. We are going to blow everything up.
Aug 3, 2024 12:00 pm
By Robert Spencer 2 Comments
He was acquitted, claiming he wasn’t the one who said it. But someone did. And this operation is already underway in France.
“Nantes prisoner prosecuted for glorifying terrorism acquitted,” translated from “Le détenu nantais poursuivi pour apologie du terrorisme relaxé,” by Marianne Dardard, Ouest France, July 21, 2024 (thanks to Medforth):
“This is why we are committed to Daesh. What is happening, you asked for it. We are going to blow everything up.” These are the words that a prisoner at the Nantes Carquefou remand center allegedly made straight in the eyes, according to a warden, while she was accompanying him, alone, to his cell, on May 9, 2024.
“I perceived his words as a threat to the prison administration in general,” testified the warden in the incident report read at the hearing of the criminal court, Friday, July 19, 2024.
However, the prison administration did not file any complaint for these facts, to the surprise of the public prosecutor. This is a kind of trivialization of these words, reacted the prosecutor, who requested a ten-month prison sentence.
“No confrontation was organized during the disciplinary committee either,” points out the defendant’s counsel, who is due to be released on July 17, after having served his last sentence for domestic violence. “We requested video surveillance that we did not obtain, nor did we hear from other prisoners,” says Mr. Aristote Toussaint.
Not to mention the said prisoner, a 43-year-old Tunisian in good standing who, through his interpreter, declares that he has never made such remarks: “The guard must have chosen the wrong prisoner.” But he also expresses himself more easily in his native language than in French. “I love France, I love living in France, and I love life.”
“I think that the gentleman was mistaken for someone else,” continues Mr. Toussaint. “We wanted to move too quickly in this case.”
Twenty minutes later, the prisoner was finally acquitted of the charges of advocating terrorism, due to insufficient evidence. |
