It has been a torrid few days in France. In the early hours of Saturday morning, a former Argentine rugby international, Federico Aramburú, was shot dead on a chic Paris street after an altercation in a bar. The suspect is a notorious far-right activist who allegedly told Aramburú that he didn’t belong in France.
On Monday Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna died, three weeks after he was beaten into a coma by fellow prisoner and infamous extremist, Franck Elong Abé, an Islamist who was captured fighting for the Taliban a decade ago. It is alleged that Abé justified his attack on the grounds that Colonna ‘had bad-mouthed the Prophet’.
Even among battle-hardened Jihadists, Abé was known for his ferocity and the director of prison administration, Laurent Ridel, admitted last week that he was at a loss to explain how Abé was able to carry out his 11 minute assault without being heard or seen by the wardens and their security cameras.
Once more the government and the judiciary stand accused of complacency and incompetency
Similar questions are being raised about the principal suspect in the murder of Aramburú, who was this morning detained in Hungary apparently en route to fight in Ukraine. According
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