Why profile Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel he intrigue investigators? Was it in direct contact with the Islamic state or another terrorist group? Has it benefited from complicity? answer.
Four days after the attack in Nice, the profile of the killer emerges gradually, the investigation progresses and shows that the terrorist had meticulously prepared his act but many questions remain. Le Figaro tried to respond.
• Why profile does intrigue the investigators?
Because it does not have the face of a seasoned jihadist. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was unknown to the intelligence and showed no signs of radicalization. Only a few lines appeared in his criminal record, including convictions of six months suspended for violence with a weapon (an altercation with a motorist earlier this year). “His criminal past did not announce anything that he is accused today”, said Saturday morning the Minister of Justice Jean-Jacques Urvoas.
Arriving in France in 2005, the delivery driver of 31 years was best known for his outbursts of anger and violence, especially towards his wife, according to his neighborhood. Alcohol, fitness, salsa, it also appears that the Tunisian holder of a residence led a life of party animal and seductive. The names of many male and female conquests – one lover of 73 years – have also been identified as a phone, according to Le Parisien . “This terrorist might be described as sexually obsessed with regard to the hearings of these different (e) s partners,” says a source close to the investigation.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel. AP Copyright: Kapitalis / AP
At the same time, the analysis of its smartphone and his computer shows that it consulted with ultra-violent websites, exposing scenes of decapitation. His swing is very recent. As indicated Le Figaro , he would suddenly comes to the defense of the Islamic State, 15 days before the attack. During the Euro, one of her neighbors had also noticed that he drank more alcohol. “It appears to be radicalized very quickly,” said the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Saturday, based on the first elements emerging from police custody.
• Was it in direct contact with the Islamic State or another terrorist group?
Probably not. In any case, the investigation has not been able to prove. Saturday Daech has yet claimed the killing of Nice and presented its author as a “soldier of the Islamic State”. That is to say as an individual with allegiance to the terrorist group from abroad. Except that, to date, no link between Nice killer and “terrorist networks” was established, further said Monday the Minister of Interior. Whether a document, a text message, a video message posted on Facebook … The police have found no evidence that the author of Nice carnage has pledged allegiance to Daech or another group . Apriori, it seems that he simply was receptive to the propaganda of the EI.
However, the uncle of the killer, told the AP news agency, suggests the existence of a recruiter Daech. Sadok Bouhlel, 69, says his nephew was indoctrinated there two weeks ago by an Algerian member of the terrorist group in Nice. This retired teacher who lives in Tunisia Msaken was briefed by members of his family, residing in Nice.
• Why is the claim of Daech intervened so late?
There are “no rules” in the timing of the claims, explained the journalist and David Thomson in several media. “It depends on the speed with which terrorists are able to communicate information with the Islamic state. For it is with this information that the organization made its releases. “
• The Islamic State he could claim an attack he did not commit?
No, say many experts. “In general, Daech does not adopt a measure which is not strictly speaking the origin” stated criminologist Alain Bauer, interviewed Friday by Le Figaro . “Daech does not usurp” the authorship of a document if it is not originally confirmed his side Islamologist Guidere. “It would be too dangerous for its credibility and could be used by the al-Qaida competitor to its detriment.” Reporter David Thomson is also convinced: “To date, EI has never claimed an attack opportunistically when it should have been often to,” he wrote on Twitter, making particular reference to crash EgyptAir plane.
• Has it benefited from complicity?
A man arrested Saturday, July 16 in Nice. REUTERS / Eric Gaillard
This is one of the questions that investigators are trying to answer. Shortly before the attack on Thursday evening, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel sent an SMS lesquel he congratulated his interlocutor for the weapon that had given him the day before. Then he added, “then back at five of your boyfriend” before indicating that it is for someone else “and her friends.” Who are these partners? More than 200 investigators have been mobilized to “identify all the recipients’ messages.
Six people are still in custody and a seventh was released in the night from Sunday to Monday. Among them, two men are suspected of providing logistical support to the Nice killer and for helping to get automatic pistol used 7:65 on the evening of drama. The question is whether these people knew the project, which would make real accomplices.
• These psychiatric disorders can they be the cause of his act?
The question is tricky because few health professionals had the opportunity to examine it. In 2004, Dr. Hamouda Chemceddine had met during a consultation. His diagnosis: Mohamed Lahouiaej Bouhlel suffers an alteration of reality, discernment and behavioral disorders. “A so early psychosis,” said he told Express . The doctor prescribed a treatment but never seen. “There was nothing in her behavior that presaged such a massacre,” he recalls. Such disorders untreated for years can lead to schizophrenia. But I categorically rejects the idea that it can be irresponsible of his act. Such violence necessarily requires indoctrination, radicalization of delirium in parallel to his psychological problems. It is not the act of a madman, it is a premeditated and executed act, “he concludes.
Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), the sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar believes, however, that this is the meeting between a psychologically unstable person and a specific environment. “The proliferation of attacks in January and November 2015 was a particular context. And he had to be inspired, “he implies Le Parisien . “This is not ideological. Because he is mentally unstable. Before, depressive people committed suicide. Now the environment created by Daech definitely pushes them to do so. Nice terrorist has said, ‘I too can do the same.’ Daech indirectly contributed to this behavior. “
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