Muslim Migrant Goes on Knife Rampage in France, 1 Dead, 9 Wounded, Cops Search for Motive

BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch

An Afghan asylum seeker is accused of killing a 19-year-old man and wounding at least nine people in a knife rampage in Lyon, France.

Witnesses said a man armed with a knife and barbecue fork randomly attacked people at a bus stop in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon.

A second man at the scene was carrying a kitchen spit, but his role in the incident was unclear after it was initially reported he may have been a suspect who fled.

Footage posted online shows hero witnesses confronting and detaining the knifeman at Laurent-Bonnevay station.

One video shows the man tossing the knife and fork to the floor and surrendering as he is surrounded by a mob.

Bus drivers and witnesses chased the knife-wielding suspect as he ran into the metro station and then cornered him at an outdoor lift after the attack unfolded just before 4.30pm local time on Saturday, local media reported.

The suspect is an Afghan asylum seeker who was not known to the police or intelligence services, BFM TV reported.

The knifeman claimed to be from Afghanistan as he was confronted by witnesses, including four bus drivers, after the attack, Le Progres reported.

There was no indication from the authorities that it was a terror attack….

A police helicopter was in the air looking for a second man reported as a possible suspect.

A possible motive for the attack was not known.

Lyon Mayor Gerard Collomb, the former French interior minister, told reporters: “For now, we do not know anything about the motive.

“What is certain is that it was not a fight since it was someone who attacked passengers waiting for a bus.”…

Robert Spencer - French authorities have already apparently dismissed out of hand the possibility that this was a jihad terror attack: “There was no indication from the authorities that it was a terror attack….Lyon Mayor Gerard Collomb, the former French interior minister, told reporters: ‘For now, we do not know anything about the motive.'”

Here is a possible motive. The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:

So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….

I don't fully agree with Robert Spencer on this. I doubt that French authorities have 'dismissed' terrorism' as a motive, but rather are reluctant to name it so without further evidence, as if 1 dead and 9 wounded isn't enough. It seems the French reluctance to call it a terrorist act was because the unnamed Afghan migrant was not on police radar. Mind you, there are far more radical Muslims in France than there are police available to monitor them.

After all the terrorism attacks in Europe and especially France, it's astonishing that French authorities are still protective of radical Muslims as they are in Germany and Sweden. It's PCMadness!

As I have said many times on this and my other blog, radical Muslims are not sane people. Read the sidebar comment under Great Quotes on my other blog by Syrian psychologist Dr. Wafa Sultan. Radical Muslims must be assumed to be insane and dangerous and should be segregated from the rest of society until they renounce Islam or die.

Number of Islamist Radicals in France Doubles in 2015 Rising to Over 8,000

French police © Charles Platiau / Reuters

The number of Islamic radicals in France doubled last year reaching 8,250 people, according to figures leaked to local media. The main hotspots of radicalization are big cities including Paris and Lyon.

Around 70 percent of the suspected radicals were male and 80 percent of the cases were characterized as “serious,” according to an official report leaked to Le Figaro and published on Tuesday.

The figures are based on police data as well as on information gathered by a special anti-radicalization hotline, the paper said. Most of the cases were identified as a result of “human contact,” not online communication.

Le Figaro published a map of the French regions where more than 200 people turned to radical Islam in 2015. Such areas include Paris and its suburbs as well as other big cities such as Lyon, Toulouse and Lille.

The report adds that the number of radicalized women and youth has significantly risen.

It says that nearly 5,000 websites – including Twitter and Facebook social network accounts – were blocked last year because of their connections to extremist Islamism.

The report said that French authorities prevented 275 suspected radicals from leaving France in 2015. While 78 were deterred from entering the country illegally.

The French government focused on the problem of radicalization last year after terror attacks such as the Charlie Hebdo and kosher market shootings in January and the terror assaults in Paris in November that killed 130 people.

Following the latter a state of emergency was introduced in France. On Wednesday, the French cabinet tabled a draft law to extend the state of emergency for another three months, according to the government’s spokesman Stephane Le Foll.

Last month France announced a €425 million (over $470 million) plan which implies the creation of 2,800 extra jobs to monitor 3,000 potentially dangerous individuals.

The state of emergency was introduced after the November attacks.

“Terrorism has struck our soil in an unprecedented way… and the threat of terrorism remains high, French citizens deserve to know the truth,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls told a press conference at the Elysee.

“We must act and act quickly, it is everyone’s responsibility, but foremost the government’s responsibility," he added.