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To negotiate with murderers is to become an accessory to the murder of his victims. Is it any wonder France is circling the drain?
Former French Intelligence Chief Alleged to Have Made Secret Pact With Palestinian Terrorists Behind 1982 Kosher Restaurant Massacre
By Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, August 9, 2019:
Police and emergency services arriving at the Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris following the Aug, 1982 terrorist attack. Photo: Reuters/Frederic Fabre.
Story continues below advertisementAs Jews in France and around the world on Friday marked the 37th anniversary of a deadly terrorist attack on a kosher restaurant in Paris, one of the country’s news outlets revealed that the former chief of French intelligence entered into a secret pact with the Palestinian group behind the massacre.
Six people were murdered and 22 wounded on Aug. 9, 1982, when terrorists from the radical Abu Nidal Organization armed with machine guns opened fire on diners at “Chez Jo Goldenberg” on the rue des Rosiers during the restaurant’s busy lunchtime service. After exploding a grenade as they made their escape, the terrorists quickly disappeared into the streets of the Marais, the old Jewish quarter of Paris where the restaurant was located.
On Friday, the newspaper Le Parisien reported that the former head of French intelligence, Yves Bonnet, had admitted to making a secret pact with the terrorists, guaranteeing Abu Nidal operatives free movement within France in exchange for a promise of no further attacks on French soil.
According to Le Parisien, Bonnet made his confession in January this year to the magistrate in charge of investigating the Jo Goldenberg attack, for which no person has yet been convicted.
“We made a kind of verbal deal in which I said, ‘I don’t want any more attacks on French soil and in return I’ll let you come to France and I guarantee nothing will happen to you,’” the paper quoted Bonnet as having said.
The pact was allegedly reached during a clandestine meeting shortly after the attack between Bonnet and representatives of the Abu Nidal group — not the terrorists who executed the massacre, he claimed, but individuals he described as their “stooges.”
According to Bonnet, the pact “worked,” insofar as there were no attacks on French soil “from late ’83, ’84 and until the end of 1985,” he said. Among the concessions made during that time by the DST, the French intelligence service, was the permission for two Abu Nidal terrorists to visit one of their comrades in a French prison.
Le Parisien added that it had partially confirmed Bonnet’s claim of a pact with Abu Nidal with two former DST officials, Jean-François Clair and Louis Caprioli. The paper said it had been told by Clair that he did “not deny that there were contacts with Abu Nidal, to do so would be lying.”
Also in the loop, the paper said, was Gilles Menage, the chief of staff to the then President of France, François Mitterrand — although the official position was that the Élysée Palace “did not know anything” about the contacts with Abu Nidal, a renegade Palestinian faction that was armed and funded by Iraq at the time of the rue des Rosiers attack. Abu Nidal’s long list of atrocities also included the Sept. 1986 shooting at the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, that killed 22 worshippers, and the December 1985 simultaneous attacks on US and Israeli airport counters in Rome and Vienna, which killed 18 people and injured 111.
Yohann Taïeb, the president of the support committee representing victims’ families, said that, if confirmed, Bonnet’s admission was “shameful”. He called on French President Emmanuel Macron to “declassify documents and take decisions about eventual legal proceedings”.
Avi Bitton, a lawyer for the families, told Le Parisien: “We need a parliamentary inquiry not just on the rue des Rosiers attack but to establish if such secret pacts were sealed with other terrorist organizations.”
Friday’s revelations about the possible collusion between Abu Nidal and French intelligence came on top of another significant, if frustrating, development in the rue des Rosiers investigation earlier this year. In May, Jordan’s highest court rejected a French appeal for the extradition of one of the suspected terrorists, 57-year-old Nizar Tawfiq Mussa Hamada.
Hamada was not formally identified until 2014, when two anonymous informants associated with Abu Nidal’s group supplied the French authorities with critical information about the terrorists’ identities. In 2015, France’s top magistrate tasked with combating terrorism, Marc Trévidic, issued arrest warrants for several suspects, including Hamada and fellow Jordanian citizen Souhair Mouhamed Hassan Khalid al-Abassi — aka Amjad Atta — reputedly the mastermind behind the attack.
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20 Comments
4 years ago
And Macron threatens Hungary , poland for not selling out their countries to islamonazis
like he and his party has been doing in france https://tinyurl.com/y6vlqtwq
what’s wrong with these lunatics ?
4 years ago
Au poteau ces traitres!
4 years ago
France a country of traitorous pussys. A useless bunch of frog eating scum. I want to visit France once, after that I could not care if the Muslims burn every church and museum to the ground. It is just what the French deserve.
4 years ago
Hope they arrest the intelligence chief and lock him away for ever.
Was reading an article on WW1 with the President Woodrow Wilson’s advisor Colonel Edward Mandell. In looking up more on him I found this. Everyone should read both articles below
Origins of your Slavery to the Banksters
https://www.cirnow.com.au/origins-of-the-strawman/
CHAPTER 6 WORLD WAR ONE
https://www.pacinst.com/terrorists/chapter6/ww1.html
4 years ago
Jeffrey Epstein commits suicide
Would be arresting the Prison Guards for manslaughter, failure to do their duty, when Epstein up suicide watch. It helps to protect the left from prison, even Prince Andrew with Epstein dead.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/10/jeffrey-epstein-dead-prison-report-latest
4 years ago
Reply to
knightsstrength
Maybe, just like former JDL leader Irv Rubin, it was an assisted suicide.
4 years ago
Reply to
knightsstrength
Epstein
The most valuable witness in US history
Why wasn’t he in witness protection?
What hospital was he pronounced dead at?
The CCTV cell camera failed – there is no video record of the evening – nor of his body being found.
4 years ago
AS always the perfidious French will whore out their grandmothers. This traitor will never face justice. Look at Petain, the main collaborator with the Germans in WWII; he never paid for his crimes..The criminals involved in the Dreyfus affair never paid for their crimes. Screw the French; they’re nothing but a nation of losers.
4 years ago
Reply to
Name
Except for Fwance’s advanced military assets — incl. nuclear missile equipped boomers — I’d agree with you.
4 years ago
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Name
How come George “$0r0$” never had to pay for his crimes when he helped the Nazi’s & stoled & told on his fellow Jews? He even admitted to it on national television. He said it was the best time of his life & he has no regrets.
Seems “certain” evil people get away with bloody fricken murder. That makes me think of the Clinton’s too. Looks like they may have just struck again. But I won’t get into that on this article.
😉
4 years ago
We can never trust the frogs.
4 years ago
And Sarkozy called Bibi a liar….What should I call the French? May the French enjoy their endless supply of moslems. May the leadership past and present burn in hell.
4 years ago
MAJOR ENEMY – GOVERNMENT OF EU
4 years ago
YOU COMPROMISED with them. You cowardly Frenchmen. You’ll only pay for it dearly with interest as the recent terror acts have done. Many more will come till you cry Uncle. You know they have no honor and you empowered them. Worse, you gave them victory. Did you ask the French people if they wanted this?
How do you feel now, Frenchie?
4 years ago
Making a deal with the devil is not likely to come out right.
4 years ago
Most people forget that when the Shah of Iran died and his Government was overthrown, it was the French Government that helped with the overthrow of the Iran (Shah’s Democratic) Government. For 10s of year France housed, fed, clothed and pampered the Ayatollah in a palatial residence and protected his millions of dollars in French Bank Accounts. Then the French Government flew him to Iran in Government jets under French military escort. The French Government ever since DeGaule have been gutless, spineless, cowardly, sniveling, groveling (to Muzzies) bullies and Fascist scumbags. The French Government did all of this in exchange for guaranteed cheaper, constant oil supplies.
4 years ago
C’est horrible!
