Who is Ismail Omar Mostefai
The identity of the kamikazes of Bataklan recognized by researchers thanks to the fingerprint of a finger cut from the explosion, is now familiar: Ismail Omar Mostefai, a 29 year old who was born in the city Kourkouron, 25 km. South of Paris and lived at least until 2012 in the neighboring town Sartre, French media reported today.
The Le Monde reports citing sources that Ishmael Mostefai very likely spent a few months in Syria, in the winter of 2013-2014, as the researchers found traces of his passage from Turkey.
On Friday night at 21:40 (local time), Ishmael Mostefai is one of the three men coming out of a black and Polo invade Bataklan concert hall, in the 11th arrondissement. Armed with Kalashnikovs and wearing explosives vests, open fire burst amid the concert. In a brief conversation he had with the police before blow up the room, they talked about Syria and Iraq. They left behind 89 dead and numerous wounded.
Thanks to the cut finger, Ishmael Mostefai is the only one bomber that has been identified so far. Born on November 21, 1985 in Kourkouron had Algerian origin, he was the father of two children, and also had two brothers and two sisters, according to the Journal du Centre. One of the brothers had a bar with hookahs in Chartres.
The Mostefai was known to the police. From 2004 to 2010 he had been convicted eight times for offenses of common law (driving without a license, insulting, unconfirmed suspected to be linked to local drug traffickers, according to the Journal du Centre). But they never imprisoned.
The young man, however, was on the radar of intelligence services from 2010 when it was identified as suspected Islamist radicalization.
"But his name was never mentioned, a dossier related to a terrorist enterprise", explained yesterday, Saturday, the prosecutor Francois Molen.
The mayor of Chartres, Jean-Pierre Gkorz recalls that "from 2012 is not moving at all. He did not make noise. He had no known occupation and from what it seems, although this information is verified, lived in subsidized housing district La Madeleine ". However in this district some residents said they believed that Ismail Mostefai had left town "for two, even three years."
According to the information of Le Monde, the future of kamikaze Bataklan he was absent for several months from La Madeleine to go to Syria. In the autumn of 2013 spent by Turkey and its intelligence regain traces of spring 2014, watching a small group Salafist in Chartres. Then considered a single group member.
According to the Journal du Centre, Ishmael Mostefai "followed by a radical Islamist" who had gone many times in this region of France for conversion, a Moroccan resident in Belgium, as the Athens Press Agency reported.
"Today the question is whether there is a network in Sartre or if Ismail Mostefai was a single person who was related to Belgian or other networks," says the mayor of Chartres Jean-Pierre Gkorz.
Yesterday, Saturday, counter-terrorism department and police officers searched the homes of his father and one of his brothers Ismail Mostefai and detained the two men to check their deposits.
Source told AFP that "the terrorist's brother, aged 34 years, appeared voluntarily at the police station of Creteil was detained in custody". He submitted that he had no contact with him for several years after a family dispute, but added he was surprised when he learned that radicalized.
The identity of the kamikazes of Bataklan recognized by researchers thanks to the fingerprint of a finger cut from the explosion, is now familiar: Ismail Omar Mostefai, a 29 year old who was born in the city Kourkouron, 25 km. South of Paris and lived at least until 2012 in the neighboring town Sartre, French media reported today.
The Le Monde reports citing sources that Ishmael Mostefai very likely spent a few months in Syria, in the winter of 2013-2014, as the researchers found traces of his passage from Turkey.
On Friday night at 21:40 (local time), Ishmael Mostefai is one of the three men coming out of a black and Polo invade Bataklan concert hall, in the 11th arrondissement. Armed with Kalashnikovs and wearing explosives vests, open fire burst amid the concert. In a brief conversation he had with the police before blow up the room, they talked about Syria and Iraq. They left behind 89 dead and numerous wounded.
Thanks to the cut finger, Ishmael Mostefai is the only one bomber that has been identified so far. Born on November 21, 1985 in Kourkouron had Algerian origin, he was the father of two children, and also had two brothers and two sisters, according to the Journal du Centre. One of the brothers had a bar with hookahs in Chartres.
The Mostefai was known to the police. From 2004 to 2010 he had been convicted eight times for offenses of common law (driving without a license, insulting, unconfirmed suspected to be linked to local drug traffickers, according to the Journal du Centre). But they never imprisoned.
The young man, however, was on the radar of intelligence services from 2010 when it was identified as suspected Islamist radicalization.
"But his name was never mentioned, a dossier related to a terrorist enterprise", explained yesterday, Saturday, the prosecutor Francois Molen.
The mayor of Chartres, Jean-Pierre Gkorz recalls that "from 2012 is not moving at all. He did not make noise. He had no known occupation and from what it seems, although this information is verified, lived in subsidized housing district La Madeleine ". However in this district some residents said they believed that Ismail Mostefai had left town "for two, even three years."
According to the information of Le Monde, the future of kamikaze Bataklan he was absent for several months from La Madeleine to go to Syria. In the autumn of 2013 spent by Turkey and its intelligence regain traces of spring 2014, watching a small group Salafist in Chartres. Then considered a single group member.
According to the Journal du Centre, Ishmael Mostefai "followed by a radical Islamist" who had gone many times in this region of France for conversion, a Moroccan resident in Belgium, as the Athens Press Agency reported.
"Today the question is whether there is a network in Sartre or if Ismail Mostefai was a single person who was related to Belgian or other networks," says the mayor of Chartres Jean-Pierre Gkorz.
Yesterday, Saturday, counter-terrorism department and police officers searched the homes of his father and one of his brothers Ismail Mostefai and detained the two men to check their deposits.
Source told AFP that "the terrorist's brother, aged 34 years, appeared voluntarily at the police station of Creteil was detained in custody". He submitted that he had no contact with him for several years after a family dispute, but added he was surprised when he learned that radicalized.
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