Posted on 03/30/2019 11:00:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A Frenchman formerly employed by his country’s Jerusalem consulate has been convicted of arms dealing after admitting three offenses in a plea bargain, the Israeli justice ministry said on Friday.
Romain Franck, who worked as a driver for the consulate, went on trial a year ago accused of exploiting reduced security checks for diplomats to smuggle 70 pistols and two automatic rifles from the Gaza Strip to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Travelers between the two Palestinian territories pass through Israel and are subject to Israeli security controls. […]
Franck was arrested in February 2018 and his trial began the following month at the district court in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. Israeli officials have said he acted on his own without the consulate’s knowledge and that diplomatic relations with France were not affected. …
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a quick and public execution is required now...
then send the body parts back to Paris
and let the EuroNazi traitors there handle disposition
of his stinking corpse
perhaps the good French people will take note .. how an honest government handles traitors and saboteurs
the French have a lot of house=-cleaning or swamp-draining to do ... to get rid of the traitors in Paris who are selling out their beautiful nation
He smuggled 70 pistols and two military "automatic rifles", probably AK types.
He was only paid $5,500?
A real AK goes for about $9K in Israel on the black market.
A commercially made pistol would likely bring $5K.
Sounds as if he were extorted or blackmailed.
The claim is the guns went to "Palistinians".
But...but...gun laws...
Throw him in parts into the gaza area.
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Sounds like he was a lower level employee of a larger operation. Presumably providing only transportation. But even for that $5,500 does seem low.
Yes, it does sound like that.
And he doesn’t even have a mohammedan name, so he’s just in it for some francs.
Go ahead and run that mouth about Libya, your time is done
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