Project bombing in Villejuif: Sid Ahmed says Ghlam have prevented … – Le Figaro

In the survey about the planned attack against one or more churches in the Val-de-Marne, the suspect number 1 said Friday the investigating judge he had rather ” did what was necessary to prevent “attack.

Indicted, including” murder “and” attempted murder “in the investigation of the foiled attack in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne) and in death Aurelie Chatelain, Sid Ahmed Ghlam was explained for the first time this Friday before a magistrate. Suspected of killing the young woman of 32 years and of plotting an attack against at least one church in April, the young Algerian of 24, which remains the main suspect in this case, continues to deny the facts that are accused as he had done during his indictment.

But he says now have, in addition, prevented the attack. “He admitted being in Villejuif 19 April 2015 in the presence of another individual. However, it disputes any responsibility in the death of Aurelie Chatelain and also claimed to have done enough to prevent the commission of an attack that day, “said his three lawyers, Mathieu de Vallois, Gilles- Jean Portejoie and Christian Benedict, without giving more details on the “other individual” mentioned. The question was already raised whether Ghlam was alone or not in Villejuif. A question strengthened by the existence of a message of its sponsors, found by the investigators, and that drove the student to act alone if his partner did not come.

The young man, known services Intelligence for having rocked in radical Islam, was arrested by chance on 19 April in Paris, after being wounded in unexplained circumstances and he himself alerted the ambulance. In his dorm room and near his car, police had found an arsenal four Kalashnikov assault rifles, a pistol, a revolver, bullet-proof vests and multipoches vests, ammunition and handwritten documents with potential targets.

According to investigators, the suspect had been researching the churches of Villejuif. The exploitation of its GPS attests to its presence in the Parisian suburb, at a time when Aurelie Chatelain was killed on April 19 by a gunshot while she was in his vehicle. The bullet was shot with a suspect’s revolver, whose DNA was also found in the vehicle of the young woman. The blood of the victim was found on the parka Sid Ahmed Ghlam.

Investigators are convinced that the Algerian could not act alone and that it was “guided” from the area Iraq-Syria. To take action, he received “assistance which resulted in the vehicles and arms supplies,” had said the Paris prosecutor Francois Molins. Early in the investigation, the prosecutor also asserted that Ghlam, who had at his papers on “al-Qaeda terrorist organizations and Islamic state”, had been in contact with “another person that may be in Syria” , who had asked him “explicitly target a particular church.” The investigation focuses on complicity from possible. Three men have been charged and imprisoned on suspicion for having provided logistical assistance. All deny being aware of a plan of attack.