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Thursday, 15 January 2015

Death threat issued to London cafe owner over 'Je Suis Charlie' sign supporting magazine tragedy.


A Muslim coffee shop owner claims he has been threatened with death after he displayed a ‘Je Suis Charlie’ sign outside his cafe.
French-born Adel Defilaux said he was in his shop when an Asian man stormed in and demanded he take down the chalk sign outside his shop in east London’s Brick Lane.
   Mr Defilaux, who said he put the sign up as a show of unity, said he tried to calmly put his reasons across but was told that anyone who supports controversial French magazine Charlie Hebdo should die. Speaking to the Evening Standard, Mr Defilaux, 32, said: "I told him I was Muslim myself and I wanted to talk gently with him and I said people can’t kill journalists for expressing themselves.
  “He said ‘I believe these people deserve to be killed and anyone supporting them deserves also to be killed’."
   Mr Defilaux, who came to the UK from Marseille five years ago, claims he was left terrified by the altercation and that the man stormed off after warning he would smash the shop up if the sign was not removed. Despite the threats, the cafe owner told how he refused to be bullied into removing the sign.
  He said: "I feel weak by myself with my little cafĂ© trying to fight against him but I won’t let him do what he wants. I’m a Muslim like him and if I want to support Charlie Hebdo I will do it. I don’t want to let him win.”

  The threats came after Paris suffered three days of shocking violence that began last Wednesday.Terrorist brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi began the horror by killing 12 people during a raid on Charlie Hebdo.
  The pair claimed it was revenge for the magazine printing pictures of the Muslim prophet Muhammed.Two days later they were killed by armed police during a siege on a printing firm where they were holed up.
  A few miles away, a Amedy Coulibaly, a jihadist pal of the twisted brothers, was also killed by cops after murdering four people during a siege on a kosher supermarket.
  According to the Evening Standard, police are now studying CCTV footage taken fromthe cafe as they launched an inquiry to trace the intruder.


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