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INTERNATIONAL
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Saturday, April 9, 2016
Denton Record-Chronicle
Belgium: still unsure whether suspect Abrini is ‘man in hat
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bombers blew themselves up, killing 16.
Authorities also detained four other
men on Friday, including a man, Osama
K, suspected of having contact with the
suicide bomber who blew himself up in
the Brussels subway, killing another 16.
Osama K was also filmed by securi-
ty cameras in the City 2 shopping mall
when the bags were bought that were
used by the suicide bombers who at-
tacked Brussels Airport the same
morning.
Belgian prosecutors said Abrini’s
fingerprints and DNA were not only in
a Renault Clio used in the Nov. 13 at-
tacks that killed 130 in Paris, but also in
an apartment in the Schaerbeek area of
Brussels used by the Brussels bombers.
Friday’s detentions and the fact that
they caught Abrini alive constituted a
rare moment of light for the Belgian au-
thorities after they were hounded for
the past two weeks, accused of several
blunders in their handling of the at-
tacks.
ered likely.
Abrini’s precise role in the Paris at-
tacks has never been clear, as is his full
link to the Brussels attacks. Abrini is a
31-year-old Belgian-Moroccan, known
as a petty criminal before he was be-
lieved to have traveled early last sum-
mer to Syria where his younger brother
died in 2014 in the Islamic State group’s
notorious francophone brigade.
He had not resurfaced since the
emergence of surveillance video placing
him in the convoy with the attackers
headed to Paris. He had ties to Abdel-
hamid Abbaoud, the ringleader of the
Paris attacks who died in a police stand-
off on Nov. 18, and is a childhood friend
AP of brothers Salah and Brahim Abdes-
In this image made from video, police arrest a man in the Anderlecht area lam.
of Brussels on Friday.
By Raf Casert
and John-Thor Dahlburg
Associated Press
BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities
arrested five men suspected of links to
last month’s bombings in Brussels on
Friday, including the last remaining
identified fugitive in the Nov. 13 Paris
attacks.
After weeks of speculation about a
mysterious “man in the hat” who es-
caped the Brussels attacks while three
suicide bombers blew themselves up,
authorities were checking whether that
man was indeed Mohamed Abrini, the
last identified suspect at large from the
Paris attacks until Friday.
Abrini is now suspected in playing a
role in the two biggest attacks carried
out by the Islamic State in Europe over
the past year, killing atotal of 162 people
— 130 in Paris and 32 in Brussels.
French authorities had renewed their
call to arrest an armed and dangerous
Abrini within hours of the March 22
Brussels attacks.
“We are investigating if Abrini can
be positively identified as the third per-
son present during the attacks in Brus-
sels National Airport [Zaventem], the
so called man in the hat,” said prosecu-
tor Eric Van der Sypt.
The man literally walked away from
the airport attack, where two suicide
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He went multiple times to Birming-
ham, England, last year, meeting with
On Thursday, Belgian investigators several men suspected of terrorist activ-
still seemed to be at a loss when they ity, a European security official has told
issued a call for help from the public The Associated Press,
with more pictures and videos of the
“man in the hat.”
State extremists involved in what one
analyst described as a terrorist “super-
cell.’
The official spoke on condition of
anonymity because he was not autho-
The suspect was seen wheeling in rized to provide details on the investiga-
bombs into the airport with two others tion. He said the meetings, including
before leaving the building ahead of the one later last summer, took place in sev-
explosions. He was then traced back by eral locations, including cafes and
CCTV into the center of town.
Friday was three weeks to the day
that authorities also arrested in another
Brussels neighborhood Salah Abdes-
lam, also a key suspect in the Paris at-
tacks who had been on the run for four
months.
Abdeslam is currently awaiting ex-
tradition to France while Belgian inves-
tigators probe his links to other sus-
pects involved in the Brussels attacks.
Prime Minister Charles Michel had
to refuse the offers of resignation of
both the interior and justice ministers
before Friday’s detentions provided a
breakthrough in the investigation.
In a strange twist, French lawmakers
investigating the Paris attacks went ear-
lier in the day to Molenbeek, the home
neighborhood of many of the Islamic
apartments.
He was traveling with Salah Abdes-
lam in the convoy headed to Paris in the
days leading up to the attacks.
Despite multiple arrests, Brussels
remains under the second-highest ter-
ror alert — meaning an attack is consid-
Pope emphasizes flexibility over rules
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By Nicole Winfield
and Rachel Zoll
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY
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In a
sweeping document on family
life that opened a door to di-
vorced and civilly remarried
Catholics, Pope Francis insisted
Friday that church doctrine can-
not be the final word in answer-
ing tricky moral questions and
that Catholics must be guided by
their own informed consciences.
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Francis didn’t create a
churchwide admission to Com-
munion for divorced and civilly
remarried Catholics as some
progressives had wanted. But in
the document “The Joy of Love,”
he suggested that bishops and
priests could do so on a case-by-
case basis in what could become
a significant development in
church practice.
The pope also strongly up-
held the church’s opposition to
same-sex marriage.
The 256-page document,
two years in the making and the
product of an unprecedented
canvassing of ordinary Catholics
and senior churchmen, is a plea
from Francis’ heart for the
church to stop hectoring Catho-
lics about how to live their lives
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Thibault Camus/AP
Volunteer Liz Clegg, right, poses with her daughter Inca Sor-
rell, in the migrant camp of Calais, north of France on Feb. 4.
The text message from a young boy, writing in broken English
on a no-frills cellphone, was frightening enough to set off a
frantic, trans-Atlantic search that saved the lives of 15 mi-
grants trapped in a locked truck in England.
Andrew Medichini/AP
Cardinals Lorenzo Baldisseri, left, and Christoph Schoenborn show a copy of the post-synodal
apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” (The Joy of Love) during a press conference at the
Vatican on Friday.
Boy’s trans-Atlantic
text, fast police work
save 15 migrants
and not just dogmatic rules im-
posed on them across the board
from above — must guide their
decisions and the church’s pas-
toral practice.
“We have been called to form
consciences, not to replace
them,” he said.
He insisted the church’s aim
is to reintegrate and welcome all
its members. He called for a new
language to help Catholic fami-
lies cope with today’s problems.
And he said pastors must take
into account mitigating factors
— fear, ignorance, habits and
duress — in counseling Catho-
lics who fail to live up to the ide-
was no way around Christ’s
teaching on the indissolubility of
marriage. Liberals had sought
wiggle room to balance doctrine
with mercy and look at each
couple on a case-by-case basis,
creating a path to reconciliation
that could lead to them eventu-
ally receiving the sacraments.
Francis took a unilateral step
last year and changed church
law to make it easier to get an
annulment. On Friday, he said
the rigorous response proposed
by the conservatives was incon-
sistent with Jesus’ message of
Consortio,” which until Friday
was the guiding Vatican docu-
ment on family life, but he omit-
ted any reference to its most di-
visive paragraph 84, which ex-
plicitly forbids the sacraments
for the divorced and civilly re-
married.
In fact, Francis went further
than mere omission and effec-
tively rejected John Paul’s sug-
gestion in that document for
people in civil second marriages
to live as brother and sister, ab-
staining from sex so they can still
receive the sacraments. In a
footnote, Francis said many peo-
ple offered such a solution by the
church “point out that if certain
expressions of intimacy are
lacking, it often happens that
faithfulness is endangered and
the good of children suffer.”
Similarly, in discussing the
need for “responsible parent-
hood” and regulating the num-
ber of children, Francis made no
mention of the church’s opposi-
tion to artificial contraception.
He squarely rejected abortion as
“horrendous” and he cited the
1968 encyclical “Humanae Vi-
tae,” which deals with the issue.
But Francis made no men-
tion of the “unlawful birth con-
trol methods” cited and rejected
in “Humanae Vitae.” Instead, he
focused on the need for couples
in their conscience to make re-
sponsible decisions about their
family size.
Francis made a single refer-
ence to church-sanctioned fami-
ly planning method of abstain-
ing from sex during a woman’s
fertile time. He said only that
such practices are to be “pro-
moted” — not that other meth-
ods are forbidden — and he in-
sisted on the need for children to
receive sex education, albeit
without focusing on “safe sex.”
The document devoted an
entire chapter to love and sex in
marriage — at times explicitly.
Schoenborn acknowledged that
Francis dared address such is-
sues even though bishops and
cardinals in two separate synods
essentially ignored the question.
Schoenborn suggested the celi-
bacy of the synod fathers was
perhaps responsible for the
omission in synod documents.
and instead find the redeeming
value in their imperfect relation-
ships.
By Gregory Katz
Associated Press
LONDON — The text mes-
sage from a young boy, writing
in broken English on a no-frills
cellphone,
enough to set off a frantic, trans-
Atlantic search that saved the
lives of 15 migrants trapped in a
locked truck in England.
The message flashed on the
cellphone of volunteer Liz Clegg,
who was attending a conference
in New York: “I ned halp darivar
no stap car no oksijan in the car
no signal iam in the cantenar.
Iam no jokan valla.” It was writ-
ten by Ahmed, an Afghan boy of
about 7, trying to say: “I need
help. The driver won’t stop the
car. No oxygen in the car. No sig-
nal. I’m in a container. I am not
joking. I swear to God.”
In March, Clegg and others
volunteering at a squalid mi-
grant camp in Calais, France,
had handed out hundreds of ba-
sic cellphones to children living
there, programming in a num-
ber for them to text in a crisis.
She knew Ahmed wouldn’t
text something like that if he
wasn’t in danger. So she called
Tanya Freedman, from the Help
Refugees charity in London, to
tell her the boy seemed to be suf-
focating.
Freedman called police in
southeast England to tell them
of the emergency. The police re-
sponse was swift and effective,
she said.
“I conveyed to them that it
was a life-and-death situation,”
Freedman told The Associated
Press on Friday. “I had Ahmed’s
number and the first thing they
did was find an interpreter who
spoke Pashto to talk to him.
They called him and immediate-
ly they realized it was an emer-
gency, and they were able to put
a trace of his cellphone and find
out he was in a lorry [truck] in
Leicestershire.”
Kent Police said in a state-
ment they received a call at 2:50
“They called
[Ahmed] and
immediately they
realized it was an
emergency, and
they were able to
put a trace of his
cellphone and find
out he was in a lorry
[truck] in
[eicestershire. ”
— Tanya Freedman, the Help
Refugees charity in London
“I understand those who pre-
fer a more rigorous pastoral care
which leaves no room for confu-
ffightening
was
sion,” he wrote. “But I sincerely
believe that Jesus wants a
church attentive to the goodness
which the Holy Spirit sows in
the midst of human weakness.”
The document is cleverly
worded: Francis selectively cited
his predecessors, making clear
he is working within their tradi-
tion but omitting the sometimes
harsh, definitive language that is
an anathema to his mercy over
moral priorities. He cited him-
self repeatedly, making some of
his most significant points in
strategically placed footnotes,
rather than the text itself.
“It’s the classic case of an or-
ganic development of doctrine,”
said Cardinal Christoph
Schoenborn, the archbishop of
Vienna who presented the docu-
ment at a Vatican news confer-
ence. “There is innovation and
continuity. There are true novel-
ties in this document, but no
ruptures.”
Gay Catholics were highly
critical, saying Francis had failed
them. The document offered
nothing significant beyond ex-
isting church teaching that gays
are not to be discriminated
against and are to be welcomed
into the church with respect and
dignity. It repeated the church’s
position that same-sex unions
can in no way be equivalent to
marriage between a man and
woman.
mercy.
“By thinking that everything
is black and white, we some-
times close off the way of grace
and of growth and discourage
paths of sanctification which
give glory to God,” he said. “Let
us remember that a small step in
the midst of great human limita-
tions can be more pleasing to
God than a life which appears
outwardly in order but moves
through the day without con-
fronting great difficulties.”
Francis didn’t explicitly en-
dorse the “penitential path” of
bringing such civilly remarried
Catholics to Communion that
al.
“It can no longer simply be
said that all those in any irreg-
ular situations are living in a
state of mortal sin and are de-
prived of sanctifying grace,” he
wrote. Even those in an “objec-
tive situation of sin” can be in a
state of grace, and can even be
more pleasing to God by trying
to improve, he said.
Archbishop Blase Cupich of
Chicago, a Francis appointee,
said the pope was telling Catho-
lics they should cultivate their
consciences “with the light of the
Gospel” as their guide.
“He’s recovering something
that we may have lost sight of,”
Cupich said at a news confer-
ence in his archdiocese.
The document’s release
marks the culmination of a divi-
sive consultation of ordinary
Catholics and the church hierar-
chy that Francis initiated in
hopes of understanding the
modem problems facing Catho-
lic families and providing them
with better pastoral care.
The most controversial issue
that arose in two meetings, or
synods, of bishops was whether
Francis would loosen the Vati-
can’s strict opposition to letting
Catholics who divorce and re-
marry receive Communion.
Church teaching holds that un-
less these Catholics receive an
annulment, or a church decree
that their first marriage was in-
valid, they are committing adul-
tery and cannot receive the sac-
rament.
Conservatives had insisted
the rules were fixed and there
p.m. on Thursday reporting that
migrants were believed to be in
danger in a truck, and that po-
lice established the truck was in
Leicestershire. The information
was given to police in Leicester-
shire, who quickly found the
truck parked at a highway ser-
vice station, broke into the back
and freed 15 oxygen-starved mi-
grants.
Only then did Freedman ex-
hale: “It was absolutely nerve-
wracking waiting to see if the
police could find this boy in time
to save his life,” she said.
Leicestershire Police said 14
migrants were detained on sus-
picion of entering Britain illegal-
ly, with their cases to be handled
by immigration officials, and
one man was arrested on suspi-
cion of illegal trafficking.
Police said one child was
placed in protective care. None
involved gave his last name be-
cause he is a minor.
“I think it’s extraordinary
that a 7-year-old boy knew his
life was in danger and had the
presence of mind to know what
to do and give the right informa-
tion and save himself and the
others in the truck,” Freedman
said.
was advocated by leading pro-
gressives such as Cardinal Wal-
ter Kasper. But he repeated what
the synod had endorsed of the
need for pastors to help indivi-
dual Catholics over the course of
spiritual direction to ascertain
what God is asking of them.
And he went further by ex-
plicitly linking such discussions
of conscience with access to the
sacraments.
In a footnote, Francis cited
his previous document “The Joy
ofthe Gospel” in sayingthat con-
fession should not be a “torture
chamber,” and that the Eucha-
rist “is not a prize for the perfect
but a powerful medicine and
nourishment for the weak.”
In many ways, the document
is most significant for what it
doesn’t say.
While Francis frequently cit-
ed John Paul, whose papacy was
characterized by a hard-line in-
sistence on doctrine and sexual
morals, he did so selectively.
Francis referenced certain parts
of John Paul’s 1981 “Familius
“He has ignored submissions
and appeals by lesbian, gay, bi-
sexual and transgender Catho-
lics,” said British gay rights advo-
cate Peter Tatchell. “Gentler
words do not assuage Vatican
opposition to gay equality.”
On thorny issues such as con-
traception, Francis stressed that
a couple’s individual conscience
educated in church teaching —
‘We hope he’s getting the
right kind of care.”
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