Failures of French intelligence in preventing terror must be mended
A French ex-intelligence chief is expected to addresses failures in tracking Islamic extremists, at the trial over deadly 2012 attacks on a Jewish school and French soldiers.It wouldn't be shocking at all if Squarcini has responsibility to shoulder for the disaster, and he should be prosecuted himself for failure to ensure Merah would be incarcerated.
Bernard Squarcini, now a private security consultant, was heading the French police counterterrorism agency when Mohammed Merah went on a shooting rampage, killing three French paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi.
Squarcini said at the time that Merah acted as a lone wolf, self-radicalized when in prison for petty crimes and wasn’t affiliated with an extremist network. But Merah had been placed on the “fiche S” listing, a register of people suspected of being radicalized, as soon as 2006 because of his relationship with older brother Abdelkader Merah, who is on trial for complicity to terror in connection with the three shooting attacks Mohammed Merah carried out in and near Toulouse.
Another report tells that the jihadist on the Champs-Elysees wanted to commit martyrdom nearly a decade ago:
A new report has shown that Islamic terrorist Karim Cheurfi, who killed a French police officer in April, had been a radical Islamist for well over a decade and expressed a desire to be a “martyr” as far back as 2009.But why couldn't he just commit suicide and not go murder innocent people just to get there? Such creatures are pathetic in their cowardice.
Seven months after he committed an act of Islamic terrorism in Paris, a profile of attacker Karim Cheurfi has finally started to emerge. Cheurfi, who had been a career criminal for most of his life, is said to have been radicalised by Islamists as early as 2002 when he spent time in Fleury-Mérogis prison, L’Express reports.
Known for his virulent hatred of police, Cheurfi spent a total of 15 years of his life behind bars where he eventually met Islamist Slimane Khalfaoui. Khalfaoui was well-known for his connections to al-Qaeda and had plotted a terror attack in Strasbourg in 2000.
Cheurfi’s father told investigators: “He already said in 2009 that he would like to die as a martyr … He had a negative vision of life, he said it was better to die as a martyr than live like, according to his terms, the disbelievers.”
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