Criticized, the former mentor of the Kouachi Farid Benyettou chooses the silence – The Obs

“The emir of the Buttes-Chaumont” Farid Benyettou, a former mentor of the brothers Kouachi, perpetrators of the terrorist attack of January 2015 against “Charlie Hebdo”, now wears a badge in black to say “I am Charlie”. A turnaround that he says in his book-confession “My jihad. The itinerary of a repented”, published with the anthropologist Dounia Bouzar, the media figure of the de-radicalisation of the French. And that shocks the associations of victims.

On the tv show “Hi Earthlings” Saturday, December 7, the anniversary of the attack against “Charlie”, Farid Benyettou has not kept his badge in his pocket. For this sequence, the senators Nathalie Goulet (UDI) and André Reichardt (LR) have announced that they got the CSA. In a press release, the two co-chairmen of the investigative mission on the fight against the networks, the jihadists believe that “the scene in question [can] be seen otherwise than as a provocation to the victims of islamist terrorism”.

when Asked by the Huffington Post, Nathalie Goulet critical of the “commercialism of the bottom floor,” which has led to the publication of the book of Farid Benyettou, and Dounia Bouzar. “Even if he is repentant and déradicalisé, it was the worst time for him to give the word,” says the senator.

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“Rehabilitation” for victims ‘ associations

Before the two senators, the association of Eleven January and the French Association of victims of terrorism (AFVT) posted on January 7, a joint statement to criticize the “réahabilitation the mentor of the brothers Kouachi by Dounia Bouzar and recovery mercantile commemorations of the attacks of January 2015″. The associations write :

“This initiative editorial is nothing other than a forum and therefore a rehabilitation thinly disguised. [...] The sense of decency and decorum require not put on the same level as the voices of victims of terrorism and that of the mentors of the terrorists.”

“A message of hope” for Benyettou

In a press release published on the website of the CPDSI, the Center for the prevention against sectarian excesses linked to Islam, created by Dounia Bouzar, Farid Benyettou has responded to the communication of the AFVT, saying its decision “not to intervene publicly as of this day”.

“The date of publication of this book was to be given the opportunity to send a message of hope, in this time of tribute. I had to heart to take on and reassure, not to offend or insult,” t-there too.

Farid Benyettou had made contact in the fall of 2015 with Dounia Bouzar, whose methods of de-radicalisation are being challenged. He has since been promoted to “trainer in de-radicalisation” within its CPDSI.

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