At first glance, the story seemed distressingly familiar: back in June 2023, a Syrian asylum seeker went on a stabbing spree at a playground in the French city of Annecy, stabbing four toddlers and two adults. There have been numerous incidents in recent years of Muslim migrants in France stabbing people in random attacks, often while screaming “Allahu akbar.”
In this case, however, the attacker shouted “In the name of Jesus Christ” as he did his stabbing and claimed to be a Christian. It seemed as if the left had at last the Christian terrorist that looms so large in its mythmaking but has been so elusive in real life. Recently, however, the whole media construct came crashing down.
A young Frenchman named Henri d’Anselme stopped the attacker’s stabbing spree. Now, d’Anselme has revealed on Legend, a popular French podcast, that a magistrate told him that the perpetrator was not a Christian but a Muslim who had been a member of Bashar al-Assad’s army in Syria and later of the Islamic State. He claimed falsely to be a Christian to gain asylum in Europe.
Here is a rough translation of what d’Anselme says in this video, beginning at 56:42. D’Anselme began by recounting his encounter with the attacker in mid-attack:
…so he shouts “in the name of Jesus Christ,” he starts to say, “My wife, my —” I don’t really know what, finally, I don’t remember very well, and I answer, “No, no, no, not Jesus Christ, you have nothing to do with Jesus,” just, in fact, I tell him NO, I shout that. “To me, you have nothing to do with Jesus Christ, you are the devil,” I said that “you are the devil,” and that’s what I said.
That was true enough, but the next day, d’Anselme woke up to find himself in the media crosshairs. They had found their Christian terrorist at last and were anxious to get the word from someone who had been on the scene. D’Anselme recounted:
The next morning, when I was asked, “But what do you think of a Christian who shouted ‘In the name of Jesus Christ?’” I told them then, “I don’t know if he is a Christian or not, it’s almost — don’t look at — what I know is that what he did is fundamentally anti-Christian. We can’t kill children, who are innocence and purity, especially in the name of Jesus Christ, who offered himself as a sacrifice for you. See, it’s not possible, it’s against everything, it’s against the whole Bible.” […]
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