Terror-convicted Said Mansour dead in Moroccan prison, aged 66
Said Mansour, known as 'the Bookseller from Brønshøj', has died in a Moroccan prison. He was deported from Denmark in 2016 and stripped of his citizenship.
'The Bookseller from Brønshøj' dies in Casablanca prison
Said Mansour, who was terror-convicted and deported from Denmark, has died in a Moroccan prison. He was 66 years old. His family informed Jyllands-Posten of his death, which Politiken also reports on.
"He lived in God's name, and he died in God's name," the family said in a brief statement. The family declined to comment further, and the cause of death has not been disclosed.
Mansour, also known by the nickname 'the Bookseller from Brønshøj', had been imprisoned in Morocco, his birthplace, since 2019. He died over the weekend and has since been buried in Casablanca.
Deported and stripped of citizenship
Mansour came to Denmark in 1984 and obtained Danish citizenship five years later. He ran an Arab bookshop where, according to Danish police, he distributed propaganda material and had close contact with Egyptian Islamist Omar Abdel Rahman – sentenced to 240 years in prison for the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
In 2015, the Eastern High Court sentenced Mansour to four years in prison for inciting terrorism and holy war. The court simultaneously annulled his Danish citizenship and deported him permanently. The Supreme Court upheld the sentence in 2016.
In an earlier district court case, he was among other things charged with having praised and shared a video showing Danish Islamists shooting at images of Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Naser Khader, Kurt Vestergaard and Lars Hedegaard.
Death sentence overturned to 25 years
Then-immigration and integration minister Inger Støjberg (V) stated that Morocco gave Denmark a guarantee in 2019 for Mansour's safety in prison. She characterised him as "possibly one of the world's most fanatical Islamists of all."
The guarantee stood in stark contrast to Mansour being sentenced to death by a Moroccan court in 2020 in connection with a terrorist attack in Casablanca in 2003, in which 45 people lost their lives. A Moroccan appeals court subsequently overturned the sentence to 25 years in prison.
Source: Politiken