Here is a fascinating timeline showing the abject failure and determined wrongheadedness of France’s security apparatus. They refuse to understand jihad, and so they consistently misunderstand jihadis.
“The Timeline of a Failed Terrorist Surveillance System,” by Zoltán Kottász, European Conservative, December 4, 2023:
…Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab was born in France in 1997 to Iranian parents, in a family described by the prosecutor as having “no religious engagement.” But French media have revealed how he was easily manipulated and radicalised as a teenager by jihadist websites and how he concealed his radicalisation while in prison. His act inevitably raises the question of how France monitors terrorists after their release after incarceration.
This is what we know so far:
2015
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab converts to Islam at the age of 18 and quickly becomes radicalised by jihadist ideology, watching videos and propaganda, and making connections with jihadists active in Iraq and Syria. “His need for bearings” accelerates his radicalisation, the terror organisation Islamic State gives him the “criteria to guide his lifestyle,” a psychologist later said….
2020
He is released from prison and left to live at home with his parents while undergoing psychiatric and neurological treatment. The young man is on a terror watch list, he has a so-called ‘S file,’ used by law enforcement to flag someone considered a threat to national security. He is monitored by the authorities. “The first few months are encouraging,” he seems to have “detached himself from religion,” a security source told AFP. However, surveillance is later increased because of his social media contacts, including with the future killer of teacher Samuel Paty.
2022
His personality is deemed “very unstable” and he is a cause for concern, according to French media sources.
2023
He is under compulsory psychiatric treatment for continued mental health problems until April. He is put under surveillance by the French secret services because of his Islamic fundamentalist profile. In October, his mother reports concerns about her son’s behaviour and says he has become “increasingly self-isolated” and is no longer taking his medication. However, there is not enough information to allow for a new prosecution. His X social media account shows many posts about the Israel-Hamas war. In a recorded video before Saturday’s attack, he swears allegiance to the Islamic State and expresses his support for jihadists all around the world.
bagsgroove says
They should do a permanent erasure of this pos muslim jihadist.
bagsgroove says
Give him a treatment by the famous doctor who solves all the problems. Bring back Madam Guillotine
Spiro says
He wasn’t under surveillance
That’s there C Y A excuse for another screw up or incompetence
Phil Copson says
It isn’t possible to monitor every possible threat 24/7 – you would need a police force that outnumbered the potential jihadists by around 6:1.
You could only deal with potential jihadists by:
(A) Deporting anyone found to be a significant threat, eg – they are making threats of violence / researching bomb-making materials / contacting known terrorists or terrorist organisations, and
(B) You would also have to make a major change to your own Constitutions, because deportation would require an ever-increasing number of them to be stripped of their citizenship even if they were born in a Western country.
Can you imagine that the leaders of Pakistan, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey etc would agree to accept the sons, grand-sons etc of people who had emigrated to the West 30, 40, 50 years ago, and who had full French, German, British, American etc citizenship?
maria says
don´t allow any muslim to France. all muslims in France should be expelled and if they resist kill them.
France should be muslim free
James Lincoln says
Phil Copson,
Laws need to be changed to deal with this present danger.
WPM says
The only solution is to jail and deport. These thousands of savages(Jihadist) wander around among the non-Moslem population like walking time bombs killing when they feel the moment is right. Also their “associates ” supporters must be deported., family members who knew their plans, people who suppled them money and info on targets ,Imams who preach killing the infidels in their mosques . Borders must be closed ,the replacement of native non-Moslems with these broken toys of the elite must stop.
OLD GUY says
One thing that would help is to shut down the internet between muslim countries and the west. The spread of this hateful jihad has spread around the globe via the internet.