[ April 19, 2024 ]
Concerns from the Jewish community are growing as France is poised to release from jail a noted terror strategist with al Qaeda, 52-year-old Djamel Beghal.
It’s not clear where the terror operative will be relocated, once he’s released.
His terror connections include Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who shot to death four Jewish hostages while engaged in an attack at a grocery in Paris in 2015.
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The Algemeiner has more:
As the French government prepares for the imminent release of a leading Al Qaeda terror strategist and ideologue, concern is mounting over where he will be located once out of jail.
Djamel Beghal, 52, is set to be released from Vezin prison in northwestern France by August 5. The Algerian national — whose terrorist connections included Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who shot dead four Jewish hostages during an armed siege at a Hypercacher supermarket in Paris on Jan, 9, 2015 — has been active in Islamist circles in Europe since the 1990s.
Beghal is coming to the end of a prison sentence that began in 2005, with a ten-year conviction for plotting bomb attacks against targets including the US Embassy in Paris. In 2013, Beghal received an additional ten years for his part in the attempted escape from prison of Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem, a leader of Algeria’s notoriously brutal Armed Islamic Group (GIA) who is serving a life sentence in France.
During his time in the Fleury-Mérogis prison near Paris, Beghal mentored Chérif Kouachi, the terrorist who went on to carry out, with his brother Said, the deadly terrorist attack against the Paris offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on Jan. 5, 2015. Through Chérif Kouachi, Beghal came into contact with Amedy Coulibaly, whose armed siege at the Hypercacher market completed the week of terror around the French capital launched by the Kouachi brothers.
Coulibaly, who was killed by French armed police following a siege that lasted several hours, had been known to the French authorities for some time. Arrested in 2010, he told interrogators on that occasion that he knew and respected Beghal, describing the Algerian as someone who had made a deep impression on him during an earlier term in prison. In the days after the January 2015 attacks, Beghal’s role as principal guide and adviser to the Kouachis and Coulibaly was extensively highlighted by a stunned French media.
Beghal is regarded as among the most dangerous of the 450 Islamist terrorists who will be released from French prisons by the end of 2019. Beghal is also banned from entering the United Kingdom, where his wife and four children still live after the family moved there in 1997. It was during his residency in the English city of Leicester that Beghal emerged as a key Al Qaeda recruiter in Europe, at one point traveling to Afghanistan for a meeting with the late Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
The French Justice Ministry plans to deport Beghal to Algeria, although it has yet to secure the agreement of the North African country’s government. Last month, French Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said that Beghal would remain under house arrest in France if Algeria refuses to take him. “What’s important is that these people are under constant surveillance,” Belloubet said.
French President Emmanuel Macron famously declared in an August 2017 policy speech that combating Islamist terrorism remained his country’s chief international concern.
“Providing security for our citizens means that the fight against Islamist terrorism is our first priority,” Macron said at a meeting of more than 200 French diplomats.
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14 Comments
5 years ago
Sooner or later we’re going to have to start bringing these monsters before firing squads or just go ahead and surrender…
5 years ago
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MAS
Agree. while Hungary keeps jihadis out and deports Left/liberal pro-jihadi Loons http://bit.ly/2gh6A72
Europe/USA denies christians/non-muslims entry and welcomes their murderers.
5 years ago
I only hope they are letting him out to track him 24/7 and penetrate his networks. After Bataclan and all the rest, anything else is …. inconceivable.
5 years ago
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poetcomic1
And then when he next murders a bunch of French civilians the authorities can say he was under observation/on a list/etc. Seems to be a normal thing for Europe these days…
5 years ago
Reply to
poetcomic1
That is not a bad idea actually, let him out for a few weeks in order for a chance to bag more terrorists. However, I am not sure if the French intend this.
5 years ago
Western Europe is probably one of the best safe havens for al-Qaeda operatives…
5 years ago
Sentenced in 2013 far an additional 10 years that means he should be in jail until 2024, so why is he released?
Any Muslim involved in terrorism should be given life without parole or better yet executed. The US justice system may have its faults but at least they give proper sentences there, like life plus 100 years for example.
5 years ago
If you helped perpetuate the crime you are just as complicit in committing them. So why is this Moslem being released so early??
He should either be hanged or hanged. Yeah, only two options on this one. 😉
5 years ago
He should be relocated to a pig sty with a bullet in his head and he meet his cult leader in Hell.
5 years ago
French Intelligence is an oxymoron. These dopes are incapable of following a pink duck smoking a Gauloises on an empty avenue. Bataclan will disappear into the the dark underworld of terrorism as soon as he is released. He will strengthen his networks and reappear in two years as the architect of another act of Muslim terrorism.
