In just the last year or so, there was a man who yelled “allahu akbar” and attacked a police station in Tours, France. Then there were back to back attacks by drivers yelling “allahu akbar” that ran down crowds, but with a low death toll, nearby. And there were the Charlie Hebdo attacks by Islamists that killed 12.
In the middle of last year a jihadist attacked a couple of churches there, and an Islamist delivery driver decapitated a man in another attack. Four were injured in an attempted mass shooting on a train to Paris and some 130 people were killed in a series of Muslim attacks on Paris in November.
Now the U.S. State Department has warned about possible terror attacks in France during this summer’s Euro 2016 football tournament.
“The large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer months will present greater targets for terrorists planning attacks in public locations, especially at large events,” said the agency. “Euro Cup stadiums, fan zones, and unaffiliated entertainment venues broadcasting the tournaments in France and across Europe represent potential targets for terrorists, as do other large-scale sporting events and public gathering places throughout Europe.”
Still, however, the nation continues to contribute to a fund paying salaries to jailed murderers.
According to a new report from Palestinian Media Watch, several other funding sources, such as the U.S., the EU, Norway and others, have pulled funding after it was revealed that the Palestinian Authority funds payments for those jailed for violent and horrific crimes.
Not so with France.
PMW’s Itamar Marcus reported, “The PA announced last week that France signed agreements to give the PA money for various projects and in addition: ‘financial aid directly to the public treasury in the amount of 8 million euro.’”
He continued, “The PA general budget that France is contributing to pays monthly salaries to terrorists like Hamas bomb maker Abdallah Barghouti, whose bombs murdered 67 people, and Abbas Al-Sayid, who planned two suicide bombings in which 35 were killed, as well as all other Palestinians imprisoned for terror crimes.
“The French government should note that the PA pays more than $12 million a month in salaries to terrorist prisoners. [Official PA TV, June 11, 2014] Accordingly, France’s 8 million euro ($8.9 million) will cover approximately three weeks of terrorists’ salaries,” he wrote.
PMW notes from a PA daily was the report, “[PA] Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah briefed the government members during the weekly meeting held today [May 25, 2016] in Ramallah, regarding results of the meeting he held in his office yesterday with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls… The [PA] prime minister expressed his gratitude to the French government for the ongoing support that it gives to the Palestinian people, whether directly or through the European Union. Likewise, he praised the three agreements that were signed during the visit. They are the agreement to fund the administration of a wastewater project in Hebron in the amount of 13 million euro, the agreement to carry out research and for the French Agency to give technical aid for future development of Palestine in the amount of 500,000 euro, and the agreement to give financial aid directly to the public treasury in the amount of 8 million euro.”
PMW’s “money trail” showed the Palestinian Authority was paying those salaries, although in secret since it had promised several years ago to stop.
PMW said it found Palestinian Authority Ministry of Finance documents that show a transfer of money from the PA to the Palestinian National Fund, the body that funds the Palestinian Liberation Organization, in the amount needed to pay the salaries.
The PA has received an estimated $25 billion in financial aid from the U.S. and other countries over two decades, according to the Gatestone Institute.
The PA’s payments became an issue for donor nations in 2014 after PMW exposed them.
PMW said that among the likely recipients is Abdallah Barghouti, now serving 67 life sentences for preparing explosives for terror attacks over the years that killed 67 people.
After having been imprisoned for 13 years, Barghouti would be receiving about $1,600 a month now, according to the PA law.
When the Western donor nations objected in August 2014, the PA announced it had closed its Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs and promised “that salaries to prisoners will no longer be paid by the PA but by the newly formed PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs.”
But the PMW report revealed the new PLO Commission is identical to the old PA Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs in everything but name.
The commission and the salary payments to prisoners remain under the “supervision” of the Palestinian presidency, meaning Mahmoud Abbas. The PA minister of prisoners’ affairs became the director of the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, PMW explained
In 2014, the last year the PA Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs operated, its budget was 442 million shekels ($118 million), PMW noted. The year after the “closure” of the PA Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs, the PA raised the amount it transfers to the PLO by 481 million shekels ($128 million), from 294 million in 2014 to 775 million in 2015.
PMW found the additional $128 million the PA gave to the PLO in 2015 “is the amount the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs needed to take on the responsibilities of the PA Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs, which is primarily paying terrorists salaries.”
It means, PMW said, Western nations were duped into believing the murderers’ salaries no longer were being subsidized by taxpayer funds.
PropagandaGuard 