This will definitely rain on a lot of people parade.
The real story about the latest guy isn’t good at all.
Complex has the details.
As fate’s fucked up sense of humor would have it, the subject of the meme is Jawad Bendaoud, who was sentenced by the Paris Court of Appeal last month after being accused of harboring terrorists Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Chakib Akrouh. Abaaoud and Akrouh were on the run at the time after their involvement in the November 2015 Paris attacks, for which ISIS claimed responsiblity.
Per NPR, Bendaoud was acquitted by a French court last year. His sentencing in March to four years behind bars was the result of an appeal filed by the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Abaaoud and Akrouh, meanwhile, died during a 2015 pre-dawn neighborhood operation by French investigators when Akrouh set off an explosive suicide vest.
Damn.
I definitely won’t be using it now.
Flip the pages to see how he went viral.
