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| The Paris "set-up" |
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| sofia |
| 01/10/03 at 19:13:17 |
| I'm pretty sure you'll never see me post something from CNN under normal circumstances (ironic that this is actually from CNN), but this just in from the latest CAIR e-letter... ------------------------------------------------- PARIS AIRPORT SUSPECT 'WAS SET UP' CNN, 1/10/03 http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/01/10/france.arrest/index.html PARIS, France --A baggage handler arrested at a Paris airport with an alleged stash of guns and explosives was the victim of a set-up, police said. French state prosecutor Yves Bot said on Friday that a former soldier in the French Foreign Legion has acknowledged framing the baggage handler. "This morning, during custody, the soldier who denounced him admitted to having taken part in a plot in liaison with the in-laws" of the arrested man, Bot told Reuters. Abderazak Besseghir, a 27-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin, was arrested on December 28 after police found pistols and explosives in the back of his car parked at Charles de Gaulle international airport north of Paris. Bot said the former soldier, Marcel Le Hir, admitted that he placed the explosives in Besseghir's car in collusion with another man, Patrick Pouchoulin, who was also being held in custody, Reuters reported. Besseghir, who has no criminal record and no known links to radical Islamic movements, has said he is innocent and that he is the victim of a plot by his late wife's family to avenge her death in a house fire last year... ----- |
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