Policemen killed: who are both close to Abballa indicted? – Point

They are three to have been placed in custody in connection with the investigation of Larossi Abballa, the murderer of a couple of policemen in Magnanville. Then a man emerged free, and Rajraji Saad Sharaf Din Aberouz, 27 and 29, were indicted Saturday night by anti-terrorist judges for “association of terrorist criminals” criminal, judges do not retain at this stage direct complicity in the double murder. They were remanded in custody.

Both were familiar with Larossi Abballa. They were convicted and imprisoned at the same time, clearly moving in jihadist circles. Relational mapping Abballa emerges gradually. It indicates that the author of two murders maintained direct links with members of the industry Buttes-Chaumont, Forsane Alizza or the Casablanca attacks. The theory of “lone wolf” seems less and less likely.

Sharaf Din Aberouz is close to Larossi Abballa. The two men were part of a group of seven French suspected of having links with Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Two of them were arrested in Lahore by Pakistani intelligence in 2011, just before reaching Waziristan, where they planned to train for jihad. Sharaf Din Aberouz then 25 years old. He was sentenced to five years in prison in France for criminal association for the preparation of a terrorist act. It will be released on 12 November 2015 of a conditional sentence reduction pattern.

“Violent in its relations with the miscreants ”

According to information we could see, it is far from being a model prisoner. The prison administration calls it “radicalized” behaving “recruiter” and notes “approach comers detainees, promotes Islam and began teaching individuals he takes under his tutelage.” On 21 February 2012, Sharaf Din Aberouz organizes a gathering of forty prisoners during the walk and a speech for 10 minutes “in strict silence of detainees present that seemed conquered and admiring,” noted services , worried. January 27, 2013, he delivered a call to prayer at night. On June 6, the guards reported behavior “violent in his relations with the miscreants ,” December 31, 2014, he welcomed the announcement of the execution of Hervé Gourdel in Algeria. To prevent it radicalizes all his fellow prisoners, he will change five times of establishment over a period of three and a half years.

This journey in French prisons is also an opportunity to make friends with figures of Islamist terrorism. He meets Maximilian Thibaut, member of the group Forsane Alizza – called nickel feet of jihad – and Teddy Valcy, well known relationship of brothers and Kouachi Amedy Coulibaly, bombers January. More troubling, the prison administration noted that Larossi Abballa is friends with Rachid Ait El Hadj, a terrorist also a native of Les Mureaux, condemned in 2007 for the Casablanca attacks. The latter was stripped of his French nationality in October 2015. It is also not the only member of the network of Casablanca bombings that Abballa knows: as explained our RTL colleagues Fouad Charouali (also forfeit nationality), logistics Casablanca bombings, was a neighbor of the family Abballa. They lived in the same building.

Imam proclaimed

Other relationship brought before the prosecutor, Saad Rajraji. He too is part of the Pakistani Jihadist thread dismantled in 2011. Sentenced to 5 years in prison, he is free since November 2014. He also ventured into dating that arouse the attention of service. In the phone seized by the prison administration found under different names, four telephone numbers corresponding to Bouchnak Thamer, a self-proclaimed Imam and considered responsible for many inmates radicalization process. The latter organizes the reading of religious texts during walks and enjoys the attention of many stooges “because of his mastery of religious texts,” notes the administration.

Thamer Bouchnak was a member of the die des Buttes Chaumont and led … Cherif Kouachi. Bouchnak knows himself very well Djamel Beghal, a former GIA and al-Qaida. According to a source close to the case, Thamer Bouchnak was previously considered by the intelligence services as “most likely to take action.” The investigation is ongoing and will determine whether Larossi Abballa acted on orders received and any accomplices.