At the origin of the Nice tragedy, is a young illegal migrant who left Tunisia, not appearing on any radar, who obviously crossed Europe like a sieve before sowing death, Thursday morning, in the Notre-Dame basilica. Lady of the Assumption.
For nearly 48 hours, the anti-terrorism sub-directorate (SDAT) and the general directorate of internal security (DGSI) have been making multiple cross-checks to retrace the trajectory of the Islamist terrorist who murdered two parishioners and a sacristan with knives.
But this one is strewn with gray areas.
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From a document from the Italian Red Cross found in his personal belongings, the investigators discovered an identity: that of Brahim A., a Tunisian national born on March 29, 1999. After taking his fingerprints and establishing ties with their counterparts transalpine, the French police officers learned that the killer, originating in the region of Sfax, had arrived in Europe via Lampedusa on September 20, on a migrant boat, just as Anis Amri, a Tunisian passed by Sicily in 2011, had done. before committing in the name of Daesh a killing on the Christmas market in Berlin in 2016.
At the end of a quarantine with 800 migrants for suspicion of Covid on a ship that would be none other than the
Rhapsody
, belonging to an NGO, Brahim A. disembarks on October 9 in Bari, in Pouillles, where he was transferred in a migrant identification center.
There, the machine jams: instead of being the subject of an expulsion procedure and lack of space available in the detention center, he is released with a paper ordering him to leave the ground as quickly as possible. Italian.
"He should have been excluded from Italy since he was the subject of a warrant for escort to the border"
, specified Friday morning on
RTL
Gerald Darmanin before adding
"he was not for reasons that we can understand ”
, stressing that it is
“ difficult to send people back in times of Covid and air borders being closed ”
.
Arrived in Nice the same morning, or the night before
What did the terrorist do before joining France, did he meet a recruiting sergeant from radical Islam?
The riddle still seemed thick on Friday.
As is often the case in the aftermath of an attack, the relatives of the terrorist involved portray a character at the antipodes of the atrocity he has just perpetrated.
Once again, the testimonies collected have hardly broken the rule.
“
My brother is a friendly person and has never shown any extremism
,” his older brother said.
He respected everyone and accepted everyone's differences from a young age.
(…) He said he was going to go to France because for work, it's better
. ”
According to his family, the radical Islamist arrived in the city of Nice the same morning or the night before, and was looking for a place to sleep near the church.
"It has been a few hours, a few days in our territory,"
the Minister of the Interior confirmed Thursday.
Not appearing in any file except that of Eurodac, a European database recording the migratory flow, Brahim A. did not submit an application for a residence card, or a request for refugee status as the Chechen benefited from. beheaded the history and geography professor Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
Possible complicity
Anxious to establish whether he came to France with the deliberate intention of planning an attack there or whether he took action in reaction to the republication of the cartoons of Mohammed, whose birth was celebrated Thursday by the Muslims, the police are exploring avenues leading to possible complicity.
Thursday evening at 9:50 p.m., they arrested a 47-year-old man.
According to our information, the latter met him physically the day before the events, without the police being able a priori to blame him for anything.
Its two telephones, which leave traces of calls in Tunisia, are in operation.
One thing is certain, the Tunisian terrorist premeditated his carnage Thursday in the early morning, by changing his pace at Nice station where he arrived at 6:47 a.m. before leaving at 8:13 a.m. to join Notre-Dame, located at 400 meters.
In his bag: a Koran and two knives.
Plus another in his hand before pushing open the door of the Basilica.
Before committing the unspeakable, he would have made a final video call Thursday morning to his family, who would have recognized the place when the news broke through the media.
At the final stage of the investigation, the police are unable to hear the terrorist.
Hospitalized between life and death, he was neutralized by fire from the municipal police of Nice on whom he rushed shouting: "
Allah akbar
".
Of the last seven attacks recorded in France, those responsible for the fight against terrorism have only been confronted with individuals who were not known to the services.
This makes the prevention of the act very complicated.
For his part, Gérald Darmanin reported Thursday of the expulsion from the national territory of fourteen radicalized foreigners in one month.
Four of them were of Tunisian nationality, the others were Russian, Algerian, Iraqi, Georgian, Bangladeshi or even Moroccan.
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