The 27-year-old man photographed in 2009 seemed to represent hope
springing from Paris’s desperate suburbs. Part of a work-insertion
program, he was about to meet then-French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who
was trying to combat high youth unemployment.
Politicians were not exactly popular in the suburban projects, he told Le Parisien,
but he nonetheless hoped to collect autographs for his family. “In a
pinch, maybe the president can help me get hired,” he said.
The man was Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed Friday after seizing hostages in a Jewish supermarket in Paris, an attack he claimed was in support of the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq & Al-Sham. A close associate of Said and Chérif Kouachi, the two brothers who attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Wednesday, Coulibaly is a symbol of the huge challenges lying ahead for France.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/09/frances-problem-up-to-half-its-prisoners-are-muslim-and-the-jails-are-a-hotbed-for-radicalization/
French policeAmedy Coulibaly was killed Friday after seizing hostages in a Jewish supermarket in Paris.
The man was Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed Friday after seizing hostages in a Jewish supermarket in Paris, an attack he claimed was in support of the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq & Al-Sham. A close associate of Said and Chérif Kouachi, the two brothers who attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Wednesday, Coulibaly is a symbol of the huge challenges lying ahead for France.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/09/frances-problem-up-to-half-its-prisoners-are-muslim-and-the-jails-are-a-hotbed-for-radicalization/
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