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On Feb 5, 3:56 am, Gary Rumain <jewde...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Brigitte-set-to-face-French-court/20...
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> Brigitte set to face French court
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> Terrorism suspect Willie Brigitte will finally face a French court on Wednesday, more than three years after being arrested for his alleged association with terrorist groups.
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> Brigitte, a former Sydney kebab restaurant worker linked to a terrorist scheme in Australia, faces the charge of association de malfaiteurs - broadly meaning criminal association - which carries a maximum sentence of ten years' jail.
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> The case begins at Paris' Palais de Justice on Wednesday and is expected to conclude on Friday.
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> Brigitte, 38, was an associate of Faheem Khalid Lodhi - aka Abu Hamza - who was sentenced to 20 years' jail last year for planning to blow up Sydney's electricity grid.
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> The Guadaloupe-born Brigitte was a former French navy deserter who discovered Islam while living in Paris in 1999.
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> He then trained with the militant Islamic group Lashkar-e-Toiba before moving in May 2003 to Sydney, where he married Muslim convert and former Australian Army signaller Melanie Brown.
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> While living in south-west Sydney, Brigitte became interested in Aboriginal issues and attended a gym run by Anthony Mundine's father Tony.
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> Brigitte had long been monitored by French intelligence by his alias, Abderrahman the West Indian. French officials were able to connect that name to Willie Brigitte and found he was in Australia.
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> After French officials urgently contacted ASIO, Brigitte was arrested at the Island Dreams halal restaurant in central Sydney on October 3, 2003.
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> He was held and questioned in Villawood detention centre before being deported to France, where he was arrested upon arrival and been held ever since, awaiting the trial that begins this week.
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> His capture led to a series of arrests in Australia of terror suspects, including Pakistan-born Lodhi.
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> The case against Brigitte has been led by famed French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, 63.
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> It is expected to be one of the French terror tsar's final cases. Bruguiere has forged close links with presidential candidate and interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy and is expected to stand in the legislative elections in June.
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> Can you imagine the filthy kebabs the pig must have made?
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> Gary the mighty Yaako warrior.