Yeah, buddy, you kinda did when you started with the “Allahu akbar” business.
“Ali Riza Polat, sentenced to life imprisonment for the January 2015 attacks, attacks two guards in Laon,” translated from “Ali Riza Polat, condamné à la perpétuité pour les attentats de janvier 2015, attaque deux surveillants à Laon,” by Jérémie Pham-Lê and Vincent Gautronneau, Le Parisien, July 16, 2024 (thanks to Medforth):
He is close to the Hyper Cacher killer, Amedy Coulibaly, and was the main accused in the trials of the January 2015 attacks. To the point of having been sentenced on appeal to life imprisonment for “complicity in terrorist assassinations,” the justice system calling him an “extremely dangerous” man.
Incarcerated in solitary confinement at Laon prison (Aisne), Ali Riza Polat, 39, is suspected of having attacked two prison guards early this Tuesday morning with two shards of glass while shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is great). These officials had just entered his cell when the inmate rushed at them. One of them was slightly injured in the forearm while the second was taken hostage by the madman. After negotiations, Ali Riza Polat finally released his grip, laid down his homemade weapons and surrendered.
The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) has taken up the investigation opened for “attempted assassination on persons holding public authority in relation to a terrorist enterprise and in a state of legal recidivism”. The investigations were entrusted to the anti-terrorist sub-directorate (SDAT), coordinating service, to the zonal directorate of the national police (DZPN) of Lille and to the General Directorate of Internal Security. The hearing of the suspect, who was placed in police custody this afternoon, should shed light on the motivations for his action.
“I never woke up one morning to destroy the lives of these people (…) I am not Coulibaly. (…) I am innocent of the facts with which I am accused,” declared Ali Riza Polat, born in Turkey and arrived in France at the age of three, during his last trial. Accused of having provided a bag of weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, containing Kalashnikovs and Tokarev pistols, the thirty-year-old had always denied knowing the use that would be made of this arsenal, imagining a robbery.
Born into a family of Alevis, a non-practicing branch of Islam, Ali Riza Polat explained that he converted in 2014. But he had always refuted any extremist practice of his religion and any adherence to terrorist theories. “I am Muslim, I am a believer. I say my five daily prayers, but I do my stupid things on the side (…) I never said that I was in the religious fight. I have no hatred against anyone.”
But his statements did not convince the anti-terrorist justice system. “For the court, there is no doubt (…) that Ali Riza Polat was indeed guilty, (…) with full knowledge of the facts, of complicity in the acts of terrorism committed in a concerted manner by the Kouachi and Amedy brothers Coulibaly, by providing the latter with permanent assistance in the preparation of his acts and in gathering the means to commit them,” motivated the judges. Contacted, the lawyers of Ali Riza Polat, Mes Moad Nefati and Rachid Madid, did not wish to speak at this stage.
At this stage, we do not know whether the attack committed by Ali Riza Polat is linked to his current conditions of detention, which he is experiencing rather poorly. The person concerned, who requested to change prison, has been placed in solitary confinement since February 2021, except for the parenthesis (October 2021 – January 2022) during his stay in Vendin-le-Vieil for an evaluation in the evaluation unit of radicalization. According to our information, this isolation measure was extended on May 19 for three months. A decision taken in particular with regard to the behavior of the detainee and his ten appearances before the disciplinary committee, including one for violence against an agent. And this despite a recent development, Ali Riza Polat showing himself to be more “sociable with the staff.
Taffy says
Instead of publicizing this, the guards should have given this Muzzie an old fashioned prison beatdown. A few fractured ribs and tenderized face and then immediately locking him back up in solitary would give him time to contemplate that Allahu Akbar-ing while incarcerated is not a good idea, Alternatively, the guards can just forget forget to feed him for 3 days straight, and then give him 500 calories and then rinse and repeat. it’s funny how getting no calories for 72 hours tends to make one physically weak. And if the Muzzie persists in Allahu Akbaring, then both a beatdown and permanently reduced caloric intake would be in order.
I personally have gone without food for 3 days as an experiment, forcing the body to start metabolizing fat. It is very unpleasant, and after day 2, I became very weak and head-achy, and on day 3, I perked up a little, but was definitely not in shape to do physical work. When I finally broke the fast, I returned to normal within a few minutes.
Alternatively, the guards could just beat the Muzzie to death and solve the immediate problem.
rick says
The French developed the perfect punishment for jihadists in the days of the French Revolution in 1789. The Guillotine. it is 100% French as well as in perfect compliance with the Islamic religion tenets.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
allahu-akbar is not a religious slogan b’cos ????
islam is not a religion!