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FRENCH POLICE HAVE taken into custody four members of the family of a radicalised Islamist who was killed when he rammed a car loaded with guns and a gas bottle into a police van on the Champs-Elysees, according to a judicial source.
The ex-wife, brother and sister-in-law of Adam Dzaziri were detained yesterday afternoon after police questioned them at the family home near Paris.
The assailant’s father was also “taken into custody during the evening”, the source said.
31-year-old Dzaziri, who was on a jihadist watchlist, rammed the car into a police van on the Champs-Elysees yesterday but inflicted no casualties, in the latest of a string of attacks in Paris, sources said. The assailant died in the incident.
The attack occurred just a short distance from where a jihadist shot dead a police officer two months earlier.
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb confirmed that a car hit the leading vehicle in a line of police vans as they headed down the Champs-Elysees, near the Grand Palais exhibition hall.
“The security forces have been targeted in France once again,” he said.
Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said the car, a white Renault Megane, caught fire.
Video showed a thick orange smoke pouring from the car after the impact as the vehicle sat in the middle of the prestigious avenue which is lined with shops and cinemas.
Police sources told AFP that they found a Kalashnikov assault rifle, two handguns, ammunition as well as a gas bottle in the car.
The “arms, explosives… could potentially blow this car up,” Collomb said. Sources previously told AFP that there were multiple gas bottles in the car.
No police or bystanders were injured in the incident.
Reporting by © – AFP, 2017
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Send out a message, deport all of them and the rest of his extended family.
@KingBen: yes,might wake them up,think needs something radical like this is the only answer these animals should’ve allowed in the EU
@KingBen: should the uk do the same for the family of the terrorist attack in Finsbury?
@Wayne O’Fathaigh: terrorist, a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. If the Finsbury attacker was politically motivated yes. If he was just murderer then life in prison will be sufficient.
@KingBen: what if he’s French?
@Jane: was he?
@KingBen: apart from all of the innocent and moderate Muslims, the vast majority, how would you resource the forcible deportation of one fifth of the population to France, to where, with what infrastructure and with what impact? Such forcible deportation would play into the hands of ISIS.
It’s just an emotional,and irrational response to call for mass deportations. It is senseless and it does not sensibly address the risk.
@Tony Daly: good points Tony, let’s just light some candles, sing songs, and change Facebook profiles. It seems to be working a treat so far. Let’s not upset ISIS, Good work Tony. Kumbaya
@Wayne O’Fathaigh: Wayne the clown in Ginsburg park is a bloody idiot who will be probably be locked up in a looney bin. This moral equivalence you are banging on about is a scourge on the debate.
@Jane: Prison camp.
@Tony Daly: Correct Tony they can’t deport French born but they can intern them. Remove them from society. If you make the list you get called in for a chat, if you continue to behave in the way that got you on the list you get interned.
@Wayne O’Fathaigh: If the knucklehead in Ginsburg park was on a watch list he should have been interned as well.
@KingBen: what if he’s French?
@Deborah Behan: is he?
@KerryBlueMike:
Intern them like Guantanamo?
@KingBen: no can do they are french nationals!!
The left and the right need to come to an agreement, the frist step is being honest and saying Islam has got a major problem. And they need to do something about it
@Philip Brady: ISIS and Jihadism are the problem. The vast majority of people who are Islamic are peaceful.
One fifth of the population of France has followers of the Islam faith. Confronting all of Islam is disproportionate.
What is needed is the assistance of the moderate Muslim community in identifying the individuals who pose a real risk. That requires mutual trust with the Muslim community.
Informed intelligence is the key.
@Tony Daly: Nonsense, Islam is totally incompatible with western liberal society.
@Philip Brady: Correct Phillip, this has to be confronted before it goes wildly out of control.
@Philip Brady: hate is the problem.
@Tony Daly: Tony do you think Islam has a problem? Yes or no answer.
@Deborah Behan: we don’t hate Muslims. We disagree with their book, which is infringing on our values.
I don’t think much of their watchlist if somebody on it can get their hands on an assault rifle and two handguns.
@Ron North: you don’t need a passport to move into Spain and beyond on the continent. Rent a car, get on a train or bus and pay fare in cash.
I can’t imagine it’s v easy for police on the continent to monitor these people.
There should be no bloody watch list. There should be peaceful law abiding citizens or people in an army detention camp.
Pussyfooting around these low lifes is doing my head in.
@KerryBlueMike:
Internment without prosecution – that worked out well in Guantanamo
We should wait for the facts before calling him a terrorist.
Oh, you did. Never mind.
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