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Manhunt launched after border guard kills 3 fellow servicemen

An Azerbaijani sergeant killed a lieutenant and two noncommissioned officers

before fleeing a border outpost, the nation’s military said

FILE PHOTO. ©  Sputnik / Aleksey Kudenko

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have launched a manhunt for a border guard sergeant who killed three military staff members at a border outpost before fleeing the military base on Sunday.

The reasons for the incident remain unclear since the suspect is still on the run, the military said in a statement.

The man, identified by the Azerbaijani border guard as Sergeant Elkhan Avazly, opened fire on his fellow servicemen “for no apparent reason” and killed a first lieutenant and two noncommissioned officers, who were at that time at a border outpost, the military said. The suspect then dropped his weapon and fled.

The Azerbaijani Military Prosecutor’s Office has launched a probe into the incident. According to the military, Avazly chose to remain on duty after completing his compulsory military service.

Sudan PM resigns amid protests marred by deadly violence

The civilian leader stepped down shortly after several people were reported

to have been killed in pro-democracy protests

People chant slogans during a protest to denounce the October 2021 military coup, in Khartoum,

Sudan, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. © AP Photo/Marwan Ali

Sudanese PM Abdalla Hamdok announced his resignation, suggesting “another man or woman” should lead the country through a transition to civilian rule just over a month after he struck a power-sharing deal with the military.

"I decided to give back the responsibility and announce my resignation as prime minister, and give a chance to another man or woman of this noble country to ... help it pass through what’s left of the transitional period to a civilian democratic country," the outgoing Prime Minister said in his farewell address on Sunday.

The resignation comes amid a wave of anti-military protests that have been rocking Sudan for months. On Sunday, medics tied to pro-democracy activists claimed that two protesters were killed by the Sudanese security forces in the country's most populated city, Omdurman. It has been alleged that dozens have been killed since the unrest erupted following the latest military coup in October that ousted Hamdok.

The putschists led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, however, soon struck a power-sharing agreement with Hamdok, reinstating him to the government. Hamdok was supposed to function as a technocratic head of the interim authority until the elections set for July 2023 are held, while the general self-appointed himself to lead the military-controlled Transitional Sovereignty Council. Al-Burhan vowed to refrain from running for a political office in 2023.

The power-sharing arrangement did not sit well with many pro-democracy activists, who took to streets protesting against both the military and Hamdok’s decision to ink a deal with the coup leaders.

Sudan has been in a state of political crisis since April 2019, when the military ousted  long-ruling president Omar al-Bashir from power.  

Another Senior Jewish Women Robbed and Beaten in Her Paris Apartment

A man wearing a yellow vest holds a placard reading "I am a Jew" during a protest in Paris

against anti-Semitism, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP/Thibault Camus)

By Ben Cohen, The Algemeiner

January 3, 2022

Yet another elderly French Jewish woman living alone in her own home has been subjected to a brutal robbery motivated by antisemitism, the Paris-based National Bureau for Vigilance Against Antisemitism (BNVCA) said on Sunday.

The attack occurred on Dec. 13, according to a statement from the BNVCA, an independent organization that assists the victims of antisemitic violence in France.

Two minors, described as black and of about 16-17 years of age, rang the doorbell of their victim’s apartment, pretending to be members of the building’s security detail. When the victim — identified as “Mrs. LU”, a 74-year-old pensioner — answered the door, the two assailants forced their way inside.

They then subjected their victim to a series of heavy blows before tying her up and ordering her to disclose where she kept her jewelry. Over the next traumatic half-hour, one of the assailants searched the apartment while the other kept guard over the victim, hitting her repeatedly and placing a piece of masking tape over her mouth to stifle her cries.

After having stolen all of their victim’s jewelry, the two assailants fled, leaving her badly bruised on the face and legs and in a state of severe shock.

The BNVCA said that the victim’s Jewish identity was revealed to the assailants by the mezuzah affixed to the doorpost of her apartment in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.

 

“In the same way that a Jew is identified as such by wearing a kippah, the apartments inhabited by Jewish families are identified by the presence of the mezuzah (a case containing a parchment written in Hebrew),” the group noted.

The BNVCA said that the victim, who had lived in the building for 30 years, was now anxious to move. The previous week, a Jewish family living in a neighboring street had been subjected to a similar antisemitic robbery, the group added.

“We call on the police to do everything possible to identify the two attackers and to carry out patrols in order to protect the residents of this neighborhood, which has become dangerous and infamous,” the BNVCA statement concluded.

Last month, a 70-year-old Parisian Jewish man was beaten, robbed and tied to a chair in his own apartment by antisemitic intruders who are yet to be apprehended by police.

There have been several instances of vulnerable Jews in France being targeted for home invasions and robberies in recent years, resulting in at least two deaths. In 2017, Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old pensioner, was beaten and and her body ejected from a third floor window by an antisemitic intruder, while in 2018, Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, was stabbed 11 times in her apartment before her body was set alight during another robbery motivated by antisemitism.

If the Jews all abandon France, as it appears they are slowly doing, the country may also be abandoned by God to the consequences of its failure to protect God's people. That will not be a good day for France.

Migrant Gang Beats and Robs Old Women in Sweden

This article is from Samhallsnytt and was translated from Swedish by Google

I've cleaned it up a little

Haiderat Salim in the far right. Photo: Police

Above is the immigrant crowd that battered and robbed 97-year-old Elsa.

The brains in the gang, which consisted mainly of so-called "street kids" originating in North Africa, specializing in older women, was a well-established man from Iraq. The man came to Sweden ten years ago, had an apartment and a job. "He is a very kind person," his father told him.

On the night of August 31, 2017, 97-year-old Elsa woke up that several men were in her bedroom on Marieholmsvägen in Malmö. Elsa, who lives alone in the house, first thought it was the home service that came to visit to replace her injured finger. And, in part, she was right - when 28-year-old Haiderat Salim previously worked as a home assistant in Elsa's area. This time, however, he came in the company of three asylum seekers of North Africans to rob her.

"You must not scream because I'll cut it!"

One of the perpetrators threatened her with a screwdriver that he held against Elsa's throat. In connection with this he said, "You must not scream because I'll cut it!", According to the police's preliminary investigation. The gang was looking for money. They threw Elsa on the floor to search through her mattress.

However, there was no money. Maybe that was why she was beaten by disappointed perpetrators.

"I have osteoarthritis in my spine so it hurt very much," Elsa later told the police. Pictures from the preliminary investigation show big bruises on Elsa's body.

The gang worked calmly and methodically during the time they were in the woman's house. They went through all the cabinets, carried out her old TV, and took wedding rings - a memory she had left behind her passing husband. Early in the morning they left the house. It took an hour for a passerby to hear Elsa's call for help and summoned the police. Here's how her house looked after the visit:

The crime was remarkable even for Malmö, which was the victim of crime, so the police put a lot of resources on getting the perpetrators.

A special dog trained to search for DNA traces searched through Elsa's garden. There were several DNA traces, because the perpetrators smoked in the house and left fimps on the spot, but none of them matched Swedish criminals in the police database. In other words, there were weak prospects to cope with the crime.

According to the police documents, Haiderat Salim's car was under guard by the police's team of forces two days after the robbery made the following observation:

"TTC783 enters Lektorsgatan and into the parking lot at number 6. Two men and at least three women and at least two children are around the car. Some of these rotate among things in the car."

Later it will turn out that the car was used at the robbery and for the transport of support goods.

Eventually, several other perpetrators joined the group who appear to be known by the team of names. Their behavior seems so suspicious to the police that they summon the intervention force that controls the car's passengers. For some reason, however, the car is not searched.

"There are four Arabs in the car"

Early in the morning of September 4, the police get a warning that some men shattered a box on a house on Regementsgatan - where another elderly woman lives. The men were scared away by a careful neighbor who called the police.

The gang was arrested thanks to a police who reported the event as follows:

"I see that a car crosses the street just in front of us. I notice that there are four Arabs in the car and find it strange that they drive around in the middle of the night in this area. We pull it over at the parking lot at Rönneholmsparken. "

The policeman speaks with the driver who is "significantly nervous". The patrol visits the gang and finds the drug Tramadol as well as hash. A short while later, Elsa's ICA card is found in the car, which makes it possible to connect the company to the previous robbery.

"The car also found various tools commonly used for crashes of this character along with goods that should typically not be in a car with young foreign men," the policeman wrote in his reporting PM.

It turned out that the three other men involved in the robbery were 20-year-old Mohammad Al Agawi, 18-year-old Alladin Al Arabi and Mansour Alzafiri with unclear age. All three were asylum seekers in Sweden with background in Morocco or other countries in North Africa. El Arabi and Alzafiri have already received expulsion decisions in their cases from the Migration Board and were thus in Sweden without permission.

"Haiderat is very kind and helps others"

The brains in the gang was, however, 28-year-old Haiderat Raad Salim - a Swedish citizen originating in Iraq and the only one who spoke fluent Swedish. 

The debate on immigrant crime often indicates that it is due to socio-economic factors - including so-called exclusion. However, when looking at Haiderat Salim, he does not seem to have been in any exclusion. He lived with his wife in a separate apartment at a good address in Malmö - far from the badly notorious Rosengård. He had a job as a home assistant - that's how he found out where the oldest and most helpless women lived.

Here lived Haiderat Salim. Photo: Google Maps

According to documents from the Swedish Migration Board, which Social News has learned, Haiderat came to Sweden 10 years ago in connection with his father. The rest of the family followed.

When social news calls Haiderat Salim's father it turns out that his Swedish is not good enough to understand questions and answer them - despite the 17 years he spent in Sweden. A moment later, he will call back using a friend who translates from Arabic.

The father confirms that he received asylum in Sweden and that the rest of the family was associated with him.

What do you have for comment on the judgment against Haiderat?

- Haiderat is very kind and helps others all the time. Should you stop him on the street in Malmö and ask for an address, he would make sure you find it right! He never did such things.

Do you mean the sentence is wrong?

- I do not know. I'm just saying that he is very kind as a person and I can not imagine he had committed what he was accused of.

In December 2017, Malmö District Court judged Haiderat Salim for 5 years and 6 months in prison. The rest of the gang was sentenced to shorter prison sentences by reference to their age. Mansour Alzafiri was sentenced to end youth care for 1 year and 10 months as the district court chose to believe that he was under 18 at the time of the crime. This despite the fact that Alzafiri left conflicting information about its age during the asylum process.

The whole age thing is a big joke in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe. Men in their late 20s claim to be teenagers to get better treatment and lighter sentences when they are caught breaking the law. Age can be determined by the courts if they had the will to, but they seem to rather let the criminals off with much lighter sentences and allow them back on the streets of Sweden to harass old women and rape young girls.

Airport Attacker Shouted ‘I am Here to Die for Allah. There will be Deaths’

A "radicalised Muslim" known to security services has been shot dead after attempting to steal a soldier's gun at Paris Orly Airport. 

French authorities are treating the attack at Orly airport as a terrorist incident, and have placed three people in custody. The Paris prosecutor says that the attacker, Ziyed Ben Belgacem, shouted Islamic slogans, before being fatally shot by security staff.

"I am here to die for Allah, there will be deaths,” the 39-year-old cried, as he attempted to wrest an assault rifle of a young female air force member on duty at Orly, according to Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, who held a press conference in the French capital on Saturday evening.

The 39-year-old French citizen, identified as Ziyed Ben Belgacem, shot at police officers manning a checkpoint in northern Paris with an "air pistol" before launching the airport attack, the French interior minister said.

During a visit to the airport, Bruno Le Roux said one officer was shot during the routine check and was undergoing hospital treatment for injuries to his face.

Passengers evacuated from Orly airport's southern terminal after a shooting on 18 March (Reuters)

"We can link the [airport attacker's] identity with a check carried out at Garges Les Gonesse by a patrol in Stains this morning," he added.

"The individual's identity is known to the police and intelligence services." Belgacem's father and brother have been detained for questioning.

According to French broadcaster BFMTV he had sent them a text reading: "I screwed up, I shot the police."

A police source described the attacker as "a radicalised Muslim known to intelligence services".

Belgacem had a lengthy criminal history of violence, robbery and drug offences but was not on the “fiche S” list of terror threats, despite being investigated by the DGSI as a potential jihadi after indications of Islamist radicalisation emerged in 2015.

Research has shown that more than half of European Isis fighters have a criminal past, with recruiters deliberately targeting violent criminals and gang members looking for redemption and a licence to kill in the name of jihad.

​Like many other Islamists, Belgacem is believed to have been radicalised in prison and was put under surveillance after being freed, although it was unclear when monitoring stopped.

Prosecutors said no evidence of extremism was uncovered in a search of his home, which was among scores raided in the immediate aftermath of the Paris attacks.

Belgacem’s first attack came at 6.50am (5.50am GMT) on Saturday morning, when he was stopped for speeding by a police patrol in the northern Paris suburb of Garges-les-Gonesse.

The national police information office said he was showing officers identification papers when he pulled put a pellet gun and opened fire, hitting one police officer in the face.

They fired back but Belgacem managed to flee in a Renault Clio, which he dumped to hijack a woman’s Citroen Picasso after making threats in a bar in Vitry.

The stolen vehicle was later found at Paris Orly Airport – but not until Belgacem had been shot dead in the attempted attack.

Belgacem attempted to steal a Famas assault rifle from a female soldier on a counter-terror patrol before being killed, Mr Le Roux said, adding that he "did not succeed".

Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French defence minister, said the air force member was thrown to the ground during the assault, adding: "The two other airmen in the patrol opened fire to protect their comrade and protect nearby members of the public.

"They reacted with great professionalism and remarkable composure."

French interior minister Bruno Le Roux and defence minister Jean-Yves le Drian answer questions at Paris Orly Airport (AP)

Francois Hollande, the French President, hailed the courage and efficiency of police confronted with "assaults committed by a particularly dangerous" individual.

Terrorism prosecutors have opened an investigation into the attack, which comes after a series of Isis-inspired atrocities across France.

No one else was injured in the airport attack at 8.30am local time (7.30am GMT), which triggered a red alert sent locally via the French government's Saip terror warning system.

“We were waiting in line to check in for a flight to Tel Aviv when we heard three or four gunshots nearby,” 54-year-old Franck Lecam told AFP.

“There were police, emergency services, soldiers running in all directions."

Another witness said Belgacem held the soldier by her neck while struggling with his other arm to get hold of her gun.

A photograph showed him lying dead on the floor outside a bakery chain, wearing black trousers and a white shirt.

The airport was evacuated as security operations continued, with France's national police urging people not to cross the security perimeter. 

Bomb squads and armed police were sent into the building to sweep for explosives but none were found.

Passengers evacuated from Paris Orly airport on 18 March (AP)

A notice was posted on the Paris airports authority website urging passengers not to travel to Orly, with diversions and delays expected.

Air traffic was suspended at Orly airport's south and west terminals as operations continued, but restrictions were lifted on Saturday afternoon.

The attacked soldier was part of Operation Sentinel - a security initiative seeing troops deployed in combat uniforms around high profile sites including the Eiffel Tower since the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

It was the fourth time that troops in the 7,500-strong force have been attacked.

In February, a man wielding a machete attacked four soldiers patrolling at Le Louvre, a year after three petrol members were wounded by a man armed with a knife outside a Jewish community centre in Nice. 

In January 2016, a man rammed his car into four soldiers guarding a mosque in the southeastern city of Valence. 

France remains on high alert following a string of terror attacks directed and inspired by Isis, which has directed its followers to carry out opportunistic attacks on security forces and civilians in Europe.

A parcel bomb believed to have been sent by Greek anarchists exploded at the International Monetary Fund's offices in Paris on Thursday, on the same day a student opened fire at a school in Grasse.

Ministers said the latest attack showed the importance of France's ongoing state of emergency, which has been extended several times despite human rights concerns raised by the UN.