Two DGSI investigators, Friday, retraced the radicalization of Samy Amimour, Foued Mohamed-Aggad and Ismael Omar Mostefai. Only the latter had bathed since childhood in a “fundamental religious environment”.
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While waiting to give, in January 2022, the floor to those who are accused of having contributed more or less closely, the Assize Court specially composed of Paris continues its exploration of the attack factory, and s “Interested, on Friday, November 19, the course of three French who did not know until a jihadist destiny bring them together in Syria, a few months before they entered Bataclan on the evening of November 13, 2015: Samy Amimour, Ishmael Omar Mostefai and Foued Mohamed-Aggad.
Their radicalization, departure and stay in Syria, then their return to Europe were in the summary of the arid presentations of two investigators of the Invisible and Anonymous Internal Security Branch (DGSI). From a nearby room, “209 if” and “020 if” – thus designated these two silhouettes hidden behind translucent walls on the screens of the courtroom – have told three different paths leading to the jihad.
That of the Parisian Samy Amimour first, “a classic scheme of radicalization 2.0”. In the investigation, his parents and his sisters mentioned a son and a brother introverted, starting to take an interest in religion in adolescence. The internet was “its only window on the world”, which did not worry his parents: the time he spent in front of his computer was, they thought, the guarantee that their son avoided the bad attendance of the street.
All have noted a change of behavior in the early 2010: Samy Amimour, become RATP bus driver in 2012 after a literary bin, began to evacuate his non-Muslim friends, to watch videos d ‘Osama Bin Laden, throwing his records and bottles of alcohol from his parents, to treat the latter disbelievers, and to estimate that France did not allow the practice of Islam.
A “Country of disbelievers where we celebrate Christmas”
Unlike Amimour, “self-taught who builds his knowledge on the Internet”, Ismael Omar Mostefai “bathes in fundamentalist religious environment”. At home, men and women take meals separately. The boy hits his sister if she does not dress like it, and denigrates this “disbeliever country where we celebrate Christmas and birthdays”. Known French intelligence services since 2009 for its membership of the Salafist movement of Chartres; He attended Abdelilah Zyiad, a Moroccan Imam involved – and sentenced to eight years in prison for this – in the Marrakech attack in 1994.
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