The family of Abdelhamid Abaaoud [paris
terror mastermind] yesterday declared he should have been ‘burnt alive to death’.
In the Moroccan hamlet wh
ere his father Omar was born, they have only just heard of the massacre he organised, leaving 129 dead.
But their verdict was immediate:
Abaaoud had no rightful place on this earth. ‘We rejoice the
news he is dead. He deserved it,’ said Sayeed Abaaoud, a cousin of the killer
and a village elder and patriarch of the clan.
‘I say he should have been burnt to death, because what he
did was not allowed under Islam or any law.’
A police source said Moroccan intelligence had tipped off
the French government about Abaaoud. He was killed alongside Hasna Ait
Boulahcen, his 26-year-old cousin, who blew herself up.
He had been thought to have planned the massacre from Syria
until intelligence placed him in Paris
for Friday’s attacks
Sayeed, 65, said:
‘It is terrible, just terrible. I know it happened a week
ago, but we only just heard about what Abdelhamid did, on Moroccan radio. We
don’t have TV.
Sayeed said:
‘We feel very upset
by the whole thing. Real Muslims do not do what Abdelhamid did. A good Muslim
doesn’t steal or hurt people, so he is not a Muslim.’
The Islamic State killer’s death at the hands of French anti-terrorist
police was confirmed yesterday.
The 27-year-old was shot in the head by a sniper then hit by
grenades during the raid in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis
on Wednesday. He had to be identified by his saliva.
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