French police are said to be reluctant to report the suspicious activity of Muslim colleagues over fears of being branded Islamophobic.
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Institutional failures in reporting possible extremist behaviour are in the spotlight in France after a Muslim convert working in a police support role killed four officers in Paris. Senior officers are under pressure to explain how a radicalised individual could continue to work inside the force without being identified, with unions representing rank-and-file officers demanding to know what is being done to tackle the issue of infiltration.
French newspaper Le Parisien reports part of the problem stems from fear by officers that if they report Islamic radicalisation in their colleagues, they could be flagged as potential Islamophobes by their superiors.
A spokesman for a police union said in response to the issue that the government should be preparing to “fight against radicalization in the police” and that whistleblowers within the force raising suspicions about colleagues should receive legal cover to protect them.
“An investigation has been launched into a grudge the assailant may have held against his colleagues, but terrorism cannot be ruled out,” a source said following the Paris police station attack.
It has also been revealed that radicalised Islamic convert Mickaël Harpon possessed a top-secret security clearance and had full access to the police prefecture’s directorate of intelligence (DRPP).
It was also reported that he had a USB stick in his possession that contained both Islamic State propaganda and the personal details of dozens of police officers. Investigators found the USB stick in his apartment shortly after the attack took place.
Despite his possession of Islamist materials, no terror group took credit for the attack.
Last year, investigators found in possession of a female radical Islamist a similar USB stick. It contained the names and personal details of 2,626 intelligence officials from France’s Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (DCRI). However, the data was listed as being from 2008.
The French police force is not the only public agency to see potential infiltration by radical Islamists. In June, a report by MPs Éric Diard of the conservative Republicans and Éric Poulliat of President Emmanuel Macron’s La République En Marche! (LREM/Republic on the Move) found many public sector workers are concerned about radical Islam.
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tituspullo
4 years ago
no different than here. any of you seen the muslim gals at the airport checking YOUR id? or the muslim guy maintaining your jet engine? yah think that might be a problem?
Yes. Amazing isn’t it? I have been at airports, primarily JFK, where the checkers are Muslim women with their heads covered glaring at ME when then search through my bags. And of course there is nothing hidden in my hair because you can see it. It is disgusting. I have personally seen at the Detroit Airport 3, yes THREE, muslim women in burkas with there entire bodies hidden wisked past security (with a White American male escorting them) without passing through a metal detector or a body scanner, while I, dressed in minimal clothing with an exposed face and hair, had to wait for a female attendant to search my body for a refusal to go into the nude body scanner.
It is not only the police who fear the labeling as Islamophobic; it is the entirety of France’s elitist betrayers. The Hug a Muslim syndrome to affirm one’s tolerance to a nihilistic cult, Islam, but, more so, one’s willingness to Islamic subjugation. The truth concerning Islam is deemed miscellaneous, redundant when it comes to France and its Western counterparts. Apologists of all walks of life are appeasers for Islam, its terror, murderous intent, and out-and-out inclination of the West’s ruination.
The police are but a mere byproduct of their overlords and overseers; their fear of reporting mistrustful, Muslim colleague mirrors that, from the authorities, government, and the average citizen.Fear is not merely infecting or affecting France, the EU, or others but infused within the minds of Americans, too.
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
I notice the article quoted includes the “islamist” lie because “islamist” like islamophobia is “a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons.”
Islam.is not a religion, it is a political cult to control peoples lives. Only the leaders can do what they want, such as drinking and raping children, just like their phony prophet. To bad you are to weak minded to see that.
I see your point on this but Dr. Bill Warner convinced me otherwise (i.e. that islum is both a religion and much worse).
MISS VEGAS
4 years ago
Isn’t ALL Islam radical!? Why, yes, yes it is.
The qur’an teaches radical crazy barbaric violent racist sicking stone age crappola.
This should have NEVER been brought to any of the Westernized Countries.
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago
The hypersensitivity of the French and their reluctance to report aberrant behavior is what allowed a suspicious converted muslime sympathizer to stab four people to death last week right there in the damn cop shop. Remember that?
By covering it up is not the government complicit , if the gov were doing their jobs maybe these things would not happen , but what can you expect when you allow a snake in your house do you not expect n to be bitten .
Dept. of Collections
4 years ago
Ilhan Omar and Rashid Tlaib are infilTRAITORS.
angry american
4 years ago
THANK OBAMA AND MERKEL FOR THIS
John Acord
4 years ago
18 years after 9/11 and the loss of thousands of American and allied lives, and we still cannot see the danger that lurks within our government, in our neighborhoods, and behind every, bush and tree. In fact, it has grown worse. Three Trillion has been spent on Islamic terrorism and the results have been zero, nada, absolutely no progress.Cancer grows and mestatacizs every hour of every day. There is no end in sight. It’s not just France, the entire West the Islamist have penetrated. John Brennan, former head of the CIA is a Muslim and a demonstrated traitor. Muslims are penetrating our government at every level while commerce and industry bows to their every whim and demand. You should be afraid that these terrorists will seize control of our nation from within. There is only one solution and that is a civil war to root them and their fellow travelers out of our lives and culture.
Correct and our leaders are allowing it to happen by doing nothing about it.
J Edward Clark
4 years ago
Agh! The Legacy of LIB ERAL THINK!
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
“Radical islamists” the word salad of obfuscation designed to absolve f’ing muslums and their death cult from all responsibility for the slaughter/rape/slavery/persecution being committed by muslums allah over the world.
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