The video below is the first part of a rant by the Algerian-French auto pundit Aldo Sterone. In this clip Mr. Sterone addresses himself to the recent Islamic terror attack in Trèbes, where a mujahid who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State shot three people to death and took hostages in a supermarket. A gendarme who exchanged himself for one of the hostages died several days later from his wounds.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below are excerpts from three articles about the attack in Trèbes and the death of the gendarme who traded himself for one of the hostages. First, from The Independent:

From Fox News:

Finally, from The Toronto Sun:

Video transcript:

00:00 Good day my friends. I was extremely affected by the attack

00:04 That took place in France today, it was an attack

00:08 in a place called Trèbes; I hope I’m pronouncing it correctly,

00:12 I don’t know if you pronounce the “s” or not. I’m not pretending that I know this place.

00:16 I had to look it up in the internet; I looked it up on Google.

00:20 And this, if I look at the ten last attacks

00:24 that hit the West, was indeed the first time that I had to Google

00:28 the place; because in general the terrorists

00:32 hits places that are extremely symbolic, that are known by everybody.

00:36 Because their point is to hit our minds as strongly as possible. Therefore they always

00:40 target large urban centers, and very famous, extremely symbolic targets.

00:44 With that, you would say that they are starting falling back on

00:49 Other types of targets. Why? It reminds me a little of the same phenomenon that occurred

00:53 in the gangster era with the banks. The gangsters targeted the banks, because

00:57 that was where the most profit was, the greatest return on investment.

01:01 When banks grasped the situation, they started to protect themselves.

01:05 So they started… some wouldn’t use cash any longer,

01:09 became digital, others used suitcases, or systems which

01:13 allowed for the actual destruction of cash, if cash was stolen.

01:17 So at that point the gangsters started falling back on

01:21 the tobacco bars, because voilà,

01:25 the banks were inaccessible. So today,

01:30 since a great portion of the workforce and so on are protecting

01:34 the targets, which are strategic or symbolic in France,

01:38 what is left? What’s left is a grocery store in a place you have to Google

01:42 to find out about. So this is what I wanted to underline.

01:46 My second point, which touched me on it,

01:50 it’s — it brought me back a little, because, you know,

01:54 During the Black Decade in Algeria, we had terrorists

01:58 who were sometimes seventeen-eighteen years old. In many

02:02 cases, their IQ wasn’t more than that of a little ape,

02:06 and those [young men] would go and

02:10 murder guys who were sixty years old,

02:14 and who spent the last forty years writing books, for example.

02:19 So you had men of very great nobility, practically national treasures,

02:23 who were murdered by a guy

02:27 who doesn’t have more culture, who doesn’t have more competence,

02:31 who doesn’t have more professional baggage than a baby, a newborn.

02:35 That level. And this is particularly abominable,

02:39 and I saw this very pattern in today’s attack in France.

02:43 In the sense that I see that pig, the terrorist

02:47 murdering people and seriously wounding

02:51 a man, who made a gesture — a gendarme

02:55 of enormous nobility: who offered himself to replace a hostage. So you can see what type of man

03:03 is being slaughtered by what type of man.

03:06 You see the situation. Also, I would like to say,

03:12 by the way, I would like to say to some politicians, to some

03:16 French media, to really shut up, definitively, if possible,

03:20 in the sense where today,

03:24 nobody in the world is saying that it’s a French rebel

03:28 who was killed by the French regime.

03:32 On the contrary: everyone agrees

03:36 that it was a foreign ape, a pig who arrived in France,

03:40 who slaughtered people, and who was killed, who got what he deserved,

03:45 and the authorities did exactly what had to be done in killing this terrorist.

03:49 And if this happens in France, in Syria or elsewhere —

03:53 all peoples have right to defend themselves against the terrorists.

03:57 A terrorist isn’t a f***ing moderate rebel, OK? So this is…

04:01 I wanted to point it out. It affects me, this attack affects me,

04:05 It affects me also in the sense that I know it’s a place forgotten by gods and men:

04:09 here, it made, in the newspapers [in England],

04:13 online, it was news for 15 minutes: just to give you an idea.

04:17 I’m sure that in three days we won’t be talking about it. Voilà. That’s all. It…

04:21 What also struck me:

04:25 I’m, I don’t know how to tell you, my friends; you know I’m a foreigner,

04:30 but I’ve traveled a lot in my life,

04:34 and I can tell you that when you arrive at the borders of Western countries,

04:38 such as France or others, you can be sent away even if your visa is OK.

04:42 You could be turned back [at the border] for nothing.

04:46 I can find you young Algerians, or not so young, very respectable people

04:50 with visas all right, who were turned away for the reasons absolutely…

04:54 “Well, today you won’t visit France. You get out of the plane and then you return to your country.”

04:58 It happens. They have this power. The authorities have this power.

05:03 And there, we have a guy, who is in the S file [terrorist file],

05:07 who is a foreigner, who has an S-file,

05:11 who was even monitored by French intelligence, because

05:15 they had some suspicions about him at some point. And there he is!

05:19 Walking around France! I’m under impression that…

05:23 I’m under impression that when these types of people arrive at the airport there is a red carpet,

05:27 and a welcoming committee with flowers and champagne!

05:31 It is rather crazy, the ease that the terrorists have;

05:35 terrorists, [or] people who were suspected of terrorism.

05:39 Normally, a foreigner shouldn’t be suspected of terrorism! A foreigner shouldn’t be surveilled

05:44 by the DGSE [Directorate-General for External Security =France’s external intelligence agency].

05:48 He shouldn’t be surveilled! If a foreigner is suspected

05:52 of terrorism, and they think that he is probably

05:56 a risk: he has to be picked up and kicked out of the country,

06:00 should be hit with a prohibition of residence. And whisper in his ear when he is getting on the plane: