All the News Without Fear or Favor The Cambodia daily Volume 64 issue 76 Wednesday, June 15, 2016 2,000 riel/50 cents Two French Police Killed In Attack by Islamic State ReUTeRS PARiS/leS MuReAux, France - A sus- pected islamist attacker stabbed a French police commander to death outside his home and later killed his companion, a female po- lice officer, in an attack that was claimed by the islamic State group and denounced by the government as “an abject act of terrorism.” The assailant, a 25-year-old French man of Moroccan origin, was jailed in 2013 for helping is- lamist militants go to Pakistan and had been under security service sur- veillance, including wiretaps, at the time of the attack, police sources said. The attacker filmed part of the assault live on Facebook, accord- Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily ing to David Thom son, a journalist Police relax between training exercises in an empty lot near the CNRP's headquarters in Phnom Penh yesterday. specializing in radical islamists. in his Facebook message, he linked the attack to the euro 2016 football Defiant Kem Sokha Still Free, Still in Hiding tournament now underway in France, saying: “The euros will be By SeK odom property and stopped his wife’s car nation to protect Mr. Sokha’s im- a graveyard.” and alex WillemynS in a failed attempt to arrest him for munity from prosecution as an The attacker, named by police The CamboDia Daily not heeding a court summons for elected lawmaker, and images on and justice sources as larossi Ab- A free man for another night, questioning over a sex scandal. social media of armed police in an balla, knifed the 42-year-old com- deputy opposition leader Kem A few hundred CNRP support- empty lot around the corner spread mander repeatedly in the stomach Sokha remained in high spirits ers yesterday poured into the area among the crowd. on Monday evening. yesterday, according to a CNRP in front of the headquarters starting Some of the police were armed He then barricaded himself inside of ficial, after armed police spent at about 7 a.m. to prevent any more with rifles and exercised in rows in- the house in Magnanville, a suburb the day “training” around the cor- attempts to arrest Mr. Sokha for ig- side the lot, only a few hundred some 60 km west of Paris, taking ner from his sanctuary inside party noring yet another summons— meters away. Metal barricades the man’s 36-year-old partner and headquarters in Phnom Penh. this time for the crime of failing to had been placed on the sides of the their 3-year-old son hostage. Mr. Sokha has been hiding in- appear in court the last two times. road about 1 km away from the Police commandos shot Abballa side the building since May 26, Many of the supporters wore building but went untouched dead when they stormed the house when police tried to storm the white shirts to show their determi- Continued on page 2 Continued on page 22 For Abusive Monk, Past Remains a Mystery By Khuon narim fect they would have on his victims. pand their probe to the defrocked and Taylor o’Connell But despite knowing that the se- monk’s previous pagodas for fear The CamboDia Daily rial rapist and former military man that he had victimized other young For almost a year, Vong Chet shuffled through three other pago- boys before moving to the province. was able to exploit his position and das since his ordination just a few But yesterday, Ms. Thavary said power as the chief monk of a rural years ago, court officials and sen- police would not follow through on pagoda in Siem Reap province to ior members of the clergy said yes- their pledge without explicit per- rape at least 10 young boys in his terday there were no plans to in- mission from the court. care. vestigate his past for more poten- “We have reports that he used to Arrested in November, Mr. tial victims. stay at other pagodas but we don’t American Pedophile Gets 10 Chet was sentenced to 15 years in After Mr. Chet’s arrest last year, have evidence that he committed Years for Abusing Six Girls prison on Thursday, a verdict that Duong Thavary, the top anti-human offenses [there],” she said. Page 4 authorities said reflected the sever- trafficking police official in Siem Siem Reap Provincial Court ity of his crimes and the lasting ef- Reap, said investigators would ex- Continued on page 6 cambodiadaily.com មានដំណឹងបែែសមែួលជាភាសាខ្មែរនៅខាងក្នុង The Daily Newspaper of Record Since 1993 2 The Cambodia daily weDneSDay, jUne 15, 2016 ANd AlSo NEWSMAKERS Police Engage in Dogged Pursuit n RoMe - pope franCiS on Monday condemned the use of hunger as a Police have located and re- the car and tried to grab the dog, the “weapon of war” and lamented the fact that it was easier to move turned a puppy that was stolen boy resisted, only to be confronted weapons across borders than the aid needed to keep civilians alive. from its 14-year-old owner at gun- with a gun. The driver of the car and Days after aid agencies were allowed to deliver food to the besieged Syr- point in the San Francisco Bay the armed passenger then fled with ian town of Daraya for the first time since 2012, Francis said preventing area last week, the Associated the dog, the AP reported. supplies from reaching war zones was a violation of international law. Press reported. lt. Robert McManus of the San on a visit to the headquarters of the World Food Program, the pope said According to the report, the boy leandro Police Department told the world faced a “strange paradox.” “Whereas forms of aid and devel- was walking his 3-month-old Ger- the AP that officers had located opment projects are obstructed by involved and incomprehensible po- man shepherd Maya last Monday the puppy and that she was safe litical decisions, skewed ideological visions and impenetrable customs night in San leandro, California, but declined to provide additional barriers, weaponry is not.... in some cases, hunger itself is used as a when he was accosted by two men details on the puppy’s reunion weapon of war,” he said in an address to the WFP, the Rome-based u.N. agency which is the largest provider of food aid worldwide. (Reuters) in a car. When the passenger exited with her owner. committee who visited Mr. Sokha tuation and the procedures in Kem Sokha... inside the headquarters in the Sokha’s case.” “I think that after they morning, said the deputy opposi- in the morning, three lawyers ConTinued from page 1 tion leader had been in good spirits. for Mr. Sokha went to the court on saw the strength from the throughout the day. “He was good. He had high mo - his behalf to explain why he would E.U., U.S., U.N. and also No attempts to arrest Mr. Sokha rale and everything was good,” not show himself. The CNRP has the strength of the people had been made as of late last night, Prince Thomico said. “He said he said Mr. Sokha’s immunity from and interior Ministry spokesman hoped that things would cool prosecution as a lawmaker pre- from the ground, the Khieu Sopheak claimed in the down and that hopefully he would cludes him from having to show ruling party did not want evening that the police were sim- be able to leave the headquarters up for questioning, a point the law - ply doing routine exercises and freely.” yers repeated yesterday. to arrest Kem Sokha.” had not been sent to threaten Mr. “i cannot speak for him, but i ly Sophanna, a spokesman for the —Kem ley, know that as long as the situation municipal court, said Mr. So kha’s ab- Sokha on his court date. poliTiCal analyST “They were just exercising. Do stands he will not leave. As soon as sence would now be reviewed. we need to find the schedule for the situation cools down and be- “The investigating judge, Thann them doing exercises?” Gen. So - comes normal again, then he will leng, is reviewing the case of Kem movement: if they [were to] arrest pheak said, before acknowledg- leave the headquarters,” he said. Sokha not turning up this morning the leader, what would happen?” ing that the police were in fact Prince Thomico added that he so the judge can continue to the Mr. ley said Mr. Sokha could gathering there due to the CNRP believed the absence of an arrest next procedures,” Mr. Sophanna not stay in hiding forever and that rally around the corner. attempt yesterday boded well for said, referring questions about opposition leader Sam Rainsy, “They had to organize before Mr. Sokha’s future. those procedures to the judge, who is living in Paris to avoid his the insecurity happens. For exam- “it’s a good sign. it’s time for dia- who could not be reached. own jail sentence, should take the ple, people or journalists like you logue to begin again. it was a sign Kem ley, a political analyst who “golden chance” to return and could get afraid and run away,” he from the government,” he said. heads the Khmer for Khmer advo- stare down the CPP with Mr. said. CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann cacy group, said he thought the Sokha. Saran Komsath, a spokesman said Mr.