Ireland: Muslim man jailed over threat to 'cut heads off Jews'

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Via Irish Independent:

Shmael Heirouche

A man who warned his French housemates that recent Isil terror attacks in France were "excellent" and that Jews should be beheaded was jailed for five years. 

Dutch national Shmael Heirouche (40) appeared before Cork Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to a charge of threatening to kill or cause serious harm. Heirouche, who is of Moroccan ancestry, also told gardaí after his arrest that if he had a sword he would cut the heads off Jews. 

He told one French man that those who carried out terrorist attacks in France would "get a first class ticket" to paradise. 

Judge Sean O'Donnabhain warned that it was a very serious matter. 

The judge said society had a right to be protected but that this right must be balanced by a duty of care to Heirouche, who was diagnosed as schizophrenic in Holland.

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