Unaccounted radical

The operation to capture the "Toulouse shooter" began on Wednesday in the morning with negotiations. The terrorist, who turned out to be 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, himself admitted to the murders of seven people. On Sunday, March 11, he, moving on a scooter, shot a military man in civilian clothes, and March 15 - two more military personnel. All of them were immigrants from North Africa. Later, March 19, he drove up on his moped to a Jewish school in Toulouse, where he opened fire on the crowd of children and their parents. A school teacher, two of his children and the daughter of the director of the educational institution died.

“He only regrets that he had not killed more people,” the state prosecutor Francois Molin reported the words “killer on the scooter” (the so -called police measure), Bloomberg reports.

At the same time, the measure that made trips to Afghanistan and announced the connections with al-Qaeda, emphasized that he was not a suicide bomber and wants to survive. According to him, there is no criminal group behind him, he acted alone.

He explained the murder of the military with the participation of France in the Afghan campaign and the introduction of a ban on wearing hijab.

The death of Jewish children was to become revenge for the death of Palestinian children, he said. However, the measure explained to the police that he attacked a Jewish school only because he did not find a military man whom he planned to shoot.

In the evening, the police turned off the street lighting in the area of ​​the operation, and also evacuated residents from the five -story building in which the measure is located, and the residents of nearby buildings. The authorities decided to refrain from the assault, as the offender opened fire on two policemen, who tried to detain him. As the BBC emphasizes, Minchina had a Kalashnikov automatic machine, a machine gun, several pistols and grenades.

Given the circumstances, law enforcement officers decided to start the siege, hoping with the help of persuasion and intimidation to force Mohammed the measure to surrender.

In order to increase pressure on the criminal, at equal intervals of time, the police produced explosions of light -school grenades near the house where he was hiding. Note that the first explosions on Wednesday evening were the reason for the reports that the assault began. However, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France subsequently refuted this information, noting that this is only the beginning of the operation to detain the “killer on the scooter”.

At the same time, the Mother of the Strelka refused to help the authorities, noting that she had never had an influence on her son and could not persuade him to give up. In addition, as part of the operation, the elder brother of Mohammed Mer Abdelcader, who is registered with French intelligence as a member of the Iraqi Jihad network, began interrogations and other relatives.

At the same time, on Thursday, AFP reported with reference to the head of the power department that the measure was going to "die with weapons in his hands." In addition, the Minister of Internal Affairs of France Claude Gean in a commentary on the French radio station RTL doubted that the criminal is still alive, since the apartment was not noticeable signs of movement, and at night the police heard two shots.

After the statement of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it became known that the police entered the apartment in which the measure was hiding. The French media reported that three explosions had thundered in the building, and ambulances and fire engines drove for a police cordon.

Immediately after the end of the operation, Claude Gean confirmed that the measure was dead.

According to him, when the capture group burst into the apartment where the measure was hiding, it did not seem that there was someone alive there. But as soon as law enforcement officers tried to open the door to the bathroom, the offender went out of there and opened a squall fire. Then the measure, continuing to shoot, jumped out the window. According to the head of the power department, he was found dead on earth. Gean also said that two policemen were injured during the storm - injuries do not threaten their lives, BBC reports.

According to RFI , the criminal managed to calculate the IP address of the computer. The French paratrooper killed on March 11, responded to the Internet publication on the sale of a motorcycle, which, as it turned out, the measure placed as a "bait". The police calculated all 576 email addresses of computers from which they entered the announcement website. Among them was the computer of Mrs. Azieri, the mother of two young people who were registered with French intelligence. However, these two facts were tied only after the tragedy of the school. The opinion of law enforcement officers about Mohammed's involvement in the murders was confirmed on March 20, when the owner of the Skuter store reported a man who asked him to turn off the chip that determines the location of the scooter.

During the siege in the media, information appeared about the criminal, whose cruelty struck the world public.

The measure was born on October 10, 1988 in a Toulouse in a family of immigrants from Algeria, where there were five more children besides him. His childhood passed on the northern outskirts of the city, where drug trafficking is widespread, the International Business Times writes .

His parents divorced a few years ago, and at the moment his mother lives in one of the poorest regions of Toulouse, said Kristian Ethilin, lawyer of the killer, who represented the interests of the measure in his many skirmishes with the law since 2005. According to him, Mohammed Mer was unemployed after he stopped working in a car repair shop.

The measure was convicted 15 times at a minor age for minor crimes, including theft, Molin said. He also stayed for 18 months in the Toulouse prison in the period from the end of 2007 to September 2009 for non -violent crimes. The lawyer Mera believes that it was at this time that his client was carried away by radical Islamic ideas. “I believe that when the measure left prison, he was on the way to radicalization, since excessive religiosity is common among prisoners,” Ethilin said, emphasizing in the CNN comment that the transformation of the measure of the measure occurred in a short time .

The defender explained that the last time Mohammed Mera saw on February 24, when he was sentenced to a month of prison for driving without rights and an accident in which the pedestrian was injured.

Note that Christian Ethin characterizes his client as a polite and courteous person. “I could never imagine that he was able to do such things,” he explained.

At the same time, Molin believes that Mohammed's radicalism began to form as a result of trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

In Afghanistan, he visited after his release from prison in 2009. The trip lasted only a few days, as it was stopped by the Afghan army, transferred into the hands of the Americans, who, in turn, sent him back to France. Between August and October 2011, the measure was in the Pakistani region of Vaziristan, bordering Afghanistan. As the criminal himself told the police, there he was trained by representatives of Al-Qaeda, of which he became a member.

Upon returning to France, intelligence officers questioned him about the goals of a trip to the region. Then the measure said that he traveled as a tourist.

According to The Telegraph , Mohammed's friends did not suspect his intentions. “We saw him on Saturday, everything was in order with him,” Samir and Akim said, noting that their friend loved speed, good cars and periodically went to nightclubs. Samir also emphasized that Mohammed was a Muslim, but was not a regular in the mosque.

Among the neighbors, the measure who responds positively about him was found only one person who initially considered him dangerous. “This person has long shown the tendency to al-Qaeda. He was declared in the area dressed in military uniform and with a sword in his hands. In addition, he once called my nephew to his car and showed him a video with the horrors that take place in Afghanistan, ”a woman named Malik, who lives next to the measure, told Le Parisien .

One of the friends of the “killer on the scooter”, who asked not to call his name, emphasized that Mohammed Mer is no more religious than himself. “I think he is crazy,” said a young man of Moroccan descent.

The head of the French Foreign Ministry Alain Juppe explained on the EUROPE1 air that the audit would show what misses were allowed by the France law enforcement system, which allowed what happened to happen.

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