Radical Islamist police officer who killed his Paris colleagues had TOP SECRET security clearance & info on UNDERCOVER COPS
Security personnel is seen after an attack on the police headquarters in Paris, France,
France is having a ‘who watches the watchmen’ moment after learning that the suspected radical Islamist who went on a stabbing spree at Paris police HQ had access to the names of undercover cops investigating domestic jihadists.
Mickaël Harpon, who went on a bloody knife rampage last week, killing three officers and a female administrator before he was shot in the head, worked as an IT specialist at the police headquarters. As the investigation into the man continues, more troubling facts have been revealed which show a major lapse in security.
His job gave Harpon a top security clearance and access to computers in a police department tasked with monitoring suspected radical Islamists in France, and he was found to be in possession of sensitive data. When they searched his home, investigators discovered the personal details of police officers who had infiltrated a number of mosques in Paris frequented by suspected radicals.[ ... ]
“It's staggering as well as maddening. How was this person able to get through the net? This is amateurism that needs to be sorted out,” Yves Lefebvre, a police union spokesman, commented on the discovery.
It was not immediately clear if Harpon kept the information to himself or used it to warn fellow Islamists. The French government hopes he didn’t share the data.
“I cannot guarantee he did not use his access to give information. For the time being, nothing indicates that he did,” French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said in a radio interview.
The minister is on the defensive now that the French opposition and some media have accused him of negligence which, as Le Figaro’s front-page editorial put it, allowed “the poison of radical Islam” to penetrate “the heart of the state apparatus.”
Harpon is said to have converted to Islam around ten years ago[....]
French President Emmanuel Macron led a national tribute Tuesday to the four police employees slain in last week's knife attack in Paris, calling them "victims of Islamic terrorism".
"...For the first time an attacker with apparent Islamist motivation struck from inside the system: not on the street, not in a church - but at the heart of the state apparatus.
Worse, it is now known that the perpetrator - 45-year-old Mickaël Harpon - gave out plenty of clues about his radicalisation. In 2015 he told colleagues the Charlie Hebdo attack had "served them right".
And worst of all, no-one raised the alert - even though the very department in which he worked dealt with the detection and bringing to justice of… Islamist radicals.
The French can be excused for asking: if the anti-Islamist police intelligence branch cannot even spot a potential killer, how on Earth is anyone else expected to?
Quite clearly mistakes were made or, as Interior Minister Christophe Castaner puts it, "system malfunctions"...."
Wat the...!!!! The guy was in there 7 WHOLE MINUTES knifing the 5 police officers (1 never died, he was seriously injured), couldn't 5 police officers over power 1 guy with a knife? I mean if he was stabbing 1 or 2 then the other 3 or 4 could have jumped him!!!
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