The alleged bombers from the Strasbourg Christmas market, Chérif C., in France, on the “Fiche S”-list for radicalized, possibly the state that are hazardous to people. On Thursday evening, the search for C.. The police shot and killed the convicted French in the case of a large RAID in the district of Neudorf, to the Southeast of the Strasbourg center. He had previously fired on the forces.
in the Meantime, the so-called “Islamic state claimed” the attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market, with three dead and several injured. Not the only reason why the authorities suspect an Islamist motive. The French-Iranian sociologist and radicalism researcher Farhad Khosrokhavar doubts. He believes that Chérif C. has used the Islam to frighten people.
The French interior Minister says, Chérif C. was radicalized in prison. How is that possible?
I don’t think. He acts on other prisoners, to practice Islam, but in the prison the works differently. The prisoner radicalisation does not show. If you make it visible, it must be clear to you that the secret service is aware of them. The radicalisation process is well-researched. Usually, he starts by saying that the inmates begin to read the Koran. Then select only the Suras, the extremist are. The others ignore it. In small groups, they exchange ideas about it.
Video: police shoot an assassin of Strasbourg Two days after the attack in Strasbourg, the alleged attackers, Cherif C., has been killed. (Video: AFP/AP/Webvideo Tamedia)
Why do the authorities of an Islamist radicalization?
Islamic fundamentalism and the radicalisation of the jihadis are two different things. The security authorities believe from their secular view angle, you will automatically begin to make themselves out to be jihadis radical, if one is a Fundamentalist. This is not empirically proven.
there Was a C. not a radicalisation of the jihadis?
In Germany, has been sitting C. a long time in prison, but the authorities have seen in him no sign of radicalisation in the name of Islam. He was for 27 Offences, such as armed robbery, Islam has played never a role. He never went to another country to be jihadists ideologically trained. Many of the assassins, who were seriously radicalized, previously traveled to Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mali or Yemen.
But he called in his attack, allegedly “Allahu Akbar”.
In Europe there are many cases like this. People type incorrectly, to be jihadists, and kill then. The perpetrators often claim that they were a sort of knight of Faith in the very secular Western European society. But the religious factor is not important. They use the Islam, because they know that “Allahu Akbar” people are scared even more. The Islamist IS-Propaganda makes use of. C. the appropriation of Islam for the negative heroes. He is famous and all over the world to speak about him.
image range: attack on Strasbourg’s Christmas market
If the authorities refer to the fact, as Islamist-motivated to play the perpetrators in the hands?
The way European societies deal with such people and be afraid to do that, gives the perpetrators, and to Islam for themselves, in a way, an additional legitimacy, and that is dangerous.
If not Islamist motives, why else would Chérif C. at the Christmas market in Strasbourg shot?
He was persecuted by the authorities because of many criminal activities. Four or five of his friends were arrested. He was depressed and desperate. C. you should come again to prison. He wanted to take revenge on the society and kill people.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 14.12.2018, 09:07 PM
