The Bataclan and Airplanes Flown into Skyscrapers: Fun for the Whole Family

A Muslim boy born and raised in Egypt and now living in France decided to share with a WhatsApp group a video game based on the mass murders by Muslims of members of the audience at the Bataclan night club in Paris, and a second one based on the planes that flew into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Robert Spencer wrote about this briefly here, and more on these repulsive ghastly games can be found here: “[VA Info] Massy: A student shares an ‘Allah akbar’ game on his high school’s WhatsApp group on November 13, 2025,” translated from “[Info VA] Massy : un élève diffuse un jeu ‘Allah akbar’ sur le groupe WhatsApp du lycée le 13 novembre 2025,” by Amaury Bucco, Valeurs Actuelles, November 21, 2025 (thanks to Medforth):

The Évry public prosecutor’s office was notified after a report from the Fustel-de-Coulanges high school in Massy (Essonne) concerning the sharing of a video game deemed problematic on a student WhatsApp group. A 16-year-old high school student of Egyptian origin was arrested and then brought before the court for glorification of terrorism.

On November 13, 2025, the 10th anniversary of the Bataclan attacks, the teenager shared a link to an online game on a school messaging group. The objective: to click on a plane flying over New York to avoid two towers. If the plane “crashes,” it explodes and a male voice shouts “Allah akbar.” In the message accompanying the link, the young man claims that he himself created the game.

Alerted, the school administration forwarded a report to the Evry judicial court. Initial investigations, however, revealed that the game had already existed on the internet for one to two years: it was not created by the high school student, but rather content that he had shared. Police and other intelligence services found no prior record against him.

So the Egyptian boy didn’t invent this game, but he did spread it to a WhatsApp group he belonged to on the internet, no doubt hoping that its members would spread this ghastly game further still.

The Evry public prosecutor’s office refers the case to the juvenile court.
The student, 16 years old and born in Kalyobia, Egypt, was arrested on November 20 and taken into police custody. During his questioning, he explained that he had only been in France for three years, that he was unaware of the November 13, 2015 attacks, and that he did not know what the game might symbolize. He claims to have simply clicked on a link received the day before from another student, before sharing it himself.

If he had been in France “only” for three years, he would certainly have heard about the Bataclan attack. Information about it was all over the internet; it was nearly as famous in France as the 9/11 attack has been in the U.S. Let’s see: he claims that photos of gunfire and bombs going off in a nightclub setting didn’t suggest anything to him. So why was it, once he clicked on the link and saw what it was about, that he chose to share that ghastly video game with many of his classmates?

If this Egyptian boy receives from a French court a non-trivial punishment, with at least a year or two in prison, that will discourage others from putting similar video games, that glorify and encourage terrorism, online. Isn’t that what we want?