The following French news clip concerns a Breton mujahid who was recently arrested in Mali. Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
0:03 | This video posted on YouTube in October 2012 had made Gilles Le Guen | |
0:04 | the most famous French Jihadist, the only recognisable one. | |
0:09 | Because this native of Brittany appeared with his face uncovered, a quite disconcerting declaration of faith. | |
0:15 | Under the banner of AQME, this merchant navy veteran retells his way to Islam | |
0:21 | and advises the French against an intervention in Mali. | |
0:23 | I call on the French people to oppose all aggression | |
0:28 | which would not be in their interest. He converted to Islam in the early ’80s | |
0:32 | and settled down in Tumbatu (Mali) in 2011 with his Moroccan wife | |
0:38 | and his five children. It’s at the moment when the jihadist groups of AQME | |
0:43 | take the town in April 2012 that he approaches them. | |
0:46 | He underwent military training but his rapport with these organisations will always remain | |
0:51 | complex, ambiguous and tainted with suspicion. | |
0:55 | In November 2012 (his Muslim name??) is arrested by AQME. | |
1:00 | Some accuse him of being a French spy. He was arrested by the French forces | |
1:04 | in the region of Timbuktu, which he never seems to have left. | |
1:08 | Now in the hands of the Malian authorities, he should be soon be available to French investigators. |
I call on the French people to despise evil and do what is right.
Fight Islam.
Do not submit, as this dead soul has done.
Interesting but I don’t see much need for concern. If he’s truly the most famous of Frenchmen who’ve turned jihadist, neither France nor Mali has much to worry about from him.