Celstraf Geeist tegen Dyab Abou Jahjah

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Twee jaar cel geëist tegen Abou Jahjah van AEL


ANTWERPEN - Het Belgische Openbaar Ministerie eist twee jaar cel voor Dyab Abou Jahjah, oprichter van de Arabisch-Europese Liga (AEL). Hij zou hebben aangezet tot rellen in Antwerpen. Dat was in 2002, na de moord op een allochtone jongen.
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Twee andere leiders van de AEL hangt dezelfde straf boven het hoofd. De rechtbank van Antwerpen doet later uitspraak.

Aanhang

De Arabisch-Europese Liga (AEL) is een beweging die wil opkomen voor Arabische moslimimmigranten in Europa. De Vlaamse organisatie heeft ook aanhang in Nederland.

Abou Jahjah wordt gezien als tegenhanger van Filip Dewinter, leider van het Vlaams Belang.





Schandalig.

er is nog een goed boek vershenen over dyab , van Mohamed Benzakour genaamd
"Abou Jahjah , nieuwlichter of oplichter, de demonisering van een politiek rebel"

[A-S M.]

Enige dat ik nog goed herinner van Abou Jahjah is dat hij en enkele anderen de straat op gingen om de politie te controleren en dat dat enorm veel tegenstand heeft gekregen, vond het nochtans een goed initiatief, toen hoorde je veel de ongeloofelijk slimme uitspraken zoals "dat ze dat maar eens in hun land proberen...' etc ^^

Waar blijft de rechtzaak tegen alle agenten die verantwoordelijk waren voor het ontstaan van rellen?

[An archist]

Ja, Jahjah werd afgeschilderd als een gevaarlijke extremist omdat ze beelden lieten zien wara hij ferm kwaad werd op de flikken. Daarbij vergaten ze te zeggen dat even daarvoor die flikken volledig zonder reden pepperspray (of traangas) in de menigte hadden gespoten. <_<

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Ik dacht dat Jahjah ook wel wat dommere ideeen had , maar ik kan niet meepraten aangezien ik toen nog niet politiek geinteresseerd was. Hij is toch Libanees hé? Of vergis ik mij...?

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ja hij is libanees. gisteren zijn autobio gekocht dat word weer smullen binnekort :D

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Artikel van Dyab , overgenomen vanaf zijn blog

As expected the political establishment is willing to play it hard and continue what it started years ago through this political process. It remains to be seen if the judge will act independently and dismiss this ridiculous case or not. The verdict will be on the 21st of December.

I myself wasn’t present at the session ( as I am in Lebanon) but I received an update from AEL activists who were there. The public persecutor started, as expected, by stating the views of the political establishment on the events of that night, claiming that the riots were initiated when a group lead by Ahmed Azzuz and Youssef Rahimi came in contact with an initially calm group of youth who were gathered at the scene. This is nonsense, the reality is the opposite, a group that was spontaneously gathering to protest the killing of brother Achrak, gathered at the scene and started small scale riots. That group was calmed down by a group of AEL activists and later by my arrival.

The p.p. also claimed that it is the Imam that have lead the crowd to the mosque and off the street and not the AEL. The reality is that the police blockaded us for hours waiting for some of its own stooges (who claim the role of Imam) to arrive and look like if they are defusing the situation, and only when that happend they released the crowd. What would make the police make such a provocative and dangerous mistake? (blockading an angry crowd in a cordon for hours), the answer is that if the AEL would lead the crowd out of the streets the AEL would look as the responsible organisation that preserved civil peace that night, this would give the AEL too much credibility for the liking of the Antwerp’s Mayor.

Another fact is that the youth that was gathering that evening would only listen to us and would have never obeyed a figure like Said Mdawshi for instance who came to the scene and had even to be protected by us to save him from getting a beating at the hand of the youth who consider him as a sell out. Claiming that these kind of people had the credibility to defuse such a situation is ludicrous and untrue. Only the AEL had the support and the street credibility to do that and we have done it out of our feeling of responsibility, and now we are paying the price for that.

The lawyers sketched the context of these events and the political nature of the claims, from our (legal) civil patrols to the infraction of the constitution by practically decreeing my arrest in parliament, a move that breached the separation of powers, to the declarations of the police chief to the press about a reasonable and positive role that we played that night and about the intention of the police to plant evidence against me during the search of my apartment. Now it is all up to the neutrality of the judge. I personally expect to be convicted on some miner charges anyway. A complete acquittance would be a serious blow for the whole Belgian establishment and that is something many people, very powerful people, in Belgium can not live with. In all cases we will not accept any conviction and we will go for appeal and complete acquittance. If that will ever be possible in these politically charged trials remains to be seen. The judiciary should be neutral and blind to color, and politics and any other consideration, this is in an ideal world, but we all know that we don’t live in that kind of world. This case is a real test for how democratic a country like Belgium can be in reality.


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