Amedy Coulibaly…

Amedy Coulibaly, or Doly led a double life, yes, he really did!

He shook hands with President Sarkozy. He was an exemplary employee of the local Coca-Cola plant. But, from his seventeenth birthday on, Amedy Coulibaly came under the influence of the radical Islamic preachers. After that,"Doly" started his own jihad. On Friday, January 9 2015, he was killed during a shooting that puts an end to a hostage situation in a Jewish supermarket. This is the spectacular end of a boy who lived a double life for fifteen years.

According to friends and family, he had a fairly happy childhood. But "Doly" quickly becomes known to the police. He is the only son in a family of ten children, and he started to commit several robberies in 2004. Back then “Doly” already was armed and dangerous!

Amedy Coulibaly becomes a radical. He often comes along with Chérif Kouachi; together they visit Djamel Beghal, a jihad preacher. Djamel Beghal is under increased police surveillance because he had planned an attack on the US embassy in Paris.

2009

“Doly” is one of the 500 young people who will meet up with, then President Nicolas Sarkozy. Since 2006 Amedy Coulibaly is in work-study program at the local Coca-Cola plant. When he was interviewed he told the newspaper that, maybe the president could help him with a steady job.

Highwaymen

But the visits to Beghal continue. Coulibaly is a model pupil: During a police interview in 2010, he called Al Qaeda in North Africa 'highwaymen in Islam, "to dispel the suspicions surrounding his person.

Within his family, he draws a much harder line. He urged his sisters too; educate their children, according to Islam. "I've beaten my fist on the table," he once told his jihad teacher. The conversations were recorded by the police and published by the weekly magazine Le Point.

He threatened his sister, telling them that, if they didn’t teach their children to pray well, they would not have to call him for anything. Told them that they didn’t get any money! That for him, “Amedy Coulibaly” religion was the most important thing in his life! He didn’t give a damn about the rest.

2010

This was the year in which he rages against his sisters, and is arrested for illegal possession of weapons. Amedy Coulibaly was sentenced to five years in prison.

Ankle bracelet

After his imprisonment "Doly" gets an ankle bracelet to monitor his every movement. The police tried have tried to dissuade him from the radical path, but they were unsuccessful. He remained part of the Parisian terror cell, with the brothers Kouachi.

Then on January 8 2015 he commits his ultimate crime. He shoots two police officers, one dies later. He kidnaps a complete supermarket, and shoots and kills four people the second he stepped inside. Innocent people who hadn’t done anything wrong were slaughtered.

His old friends talked to him last weekend, in the drab suburb of Grigny, where she grew up. "He slowly slipped from small to big crime, and later to radical Islam. We talked, and said that we had to see each other more often.

Friends and people who knew him were stunned by the news that this man was a radical Islamist or, terrorist if you will!

My thoughts.

Amedy Coulibaly wore his mask until the bitter and bloody end! He fooled many people, but did he fool his family too? Did his family know that he had become a terrorist? Terrorism isn’t about religion, it’s all about power! It’s their way or the highway! If you don’t think alike, then they will kill you.

I don’t believe that the thread is over; all over Europe, the 'sleeping cells' are awake and ready for battle! 

Do I feel threatened by Muslims? No, I don’t!

Do I feel threatened by terrorists? Yes, definitely!

Religion isn’t about war and killing people, religion is about living peacefully, side-by-side!