Sunday, January 11, 2015

What happens when you're soft on Islamist terrorists....how about arresting him as an accessory to murder?

Man who 'helped radicalise' Paris gunmen now nurse at hospital which received victims

Farid Benyettou, who allegedly helped to radicalise the Kouachi brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo attack, was not on duty when the victims were brought to his hospital 

Farid Benyettou
Farid Benyettou Photo: François Bouchon / Le Figaro
The Islamist "spiritual guide" who allegedly helped radicalise the Kouachi brothers behind the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo now works as a trainee nurse in the accident and emergency unit of one of the Paris hospitals where some of the victims of the assault on the magazine were taken. 
Farid Benyettou was off duty on Wednesday at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital when the wounded were brought there but was meant to back at work on Friday, before hospital authorities took him off the rota, according to Le Parisien newspaper. 
He was jailed for criminal association in relation with a terrorist enterprise in 2008 but started training as a nurse when he was released in 2011. He began a work placement at the hospital last month, the paper said. 
Benyettou was described as a “studious and discreet trainee” by colleagues who appeared to be unaware of his notorious past. 
“it is impossible to imagine that this man - whom everyone says is one of the main mentors of the Kouachi brothers - might have tended to the victims of his former protégés,” a doctor at the hospital told Le Parisien. 

Hospital authorities said that after liaising with police they had decided to remove him from duty. Any person with a criminal record is barred from holding a position in a public hospital but this does not prevent trainee nurses from obtaining a diploma in the profession, which allows them to work outside the public hospital sector, the authorities said. 
Benyettou was a known recruiter of candidates for jihad for Iraq, operating in the 19th arrondissement of Paris in the early 2000s. 
Jean-Julien Xavier-Rolai, the public prosecutor at the time, described him as the “spiritual guide” of the Kouachi brothers and “the link between the suburbs of Fallujah and the 19th arrondissement”.

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