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Attack of Doves: the preferred terrorist track

2020-04-28T16:35:30.673Z


Youssef T., who attempted to assassinate two police officers in Colombes on Monday, had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State.


At the end of several hours of "evaluation" , the national antiterrorist parquet floor decided to seize within the framework of the attack which targeted two police officers, Monday afternoon, in Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) in the name of The Islamic State.

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Tuesday afternoon, the specialized magistrates opened an investigation of the counts of "attempted assassinations on persons depositaries of the public authority in connection with a terrorist enterprise and association of criminal criminal thief" . Once again, this dossier depicts an Islamist who went under the radar before taking action. Aged 29 and of French nationality, Youssef T. spent his first night in police custody at 36 rue du "Bastion", headquarters of the Parisian PJ, to be heard by the responsible criminal brigade, with the Directorate General of internal security (DGSI), to shed light on the attack and the motivations of its author. The course of events appears both clear and chilling.

Allegiance to the Islamic State

Shortly before 5.30 p.m., Youssef T. drives a black BMW in the streets of Colombes. Obviously agitated after having watched videos on the situation in the Gaza Strip, the man described by relatives as a "pro-Palestinian" placed a knife in the passenger compartment of his car. Slipped into the sun visor, a letter described as " very clear " by an informed source swears allegiance to the Islamic State. In particular, the author explains that he launched himself "head on in the battle to impose sharia law on the whole Earth" .

In particular, the author explains that he launched himself "head on in the battle to impose sharia law on the whole Earth".

In front of the police, this native of Lunéville (Moselle) would also have displayed the will to die as a "martyr" by killing the police, as propaganda by the terrorist organization has been advocating for years. At the level of the Yves-du-Manoir stadium, he puts his project into execution: launched at high speed, his car collides head-on with two bikers from the Directorate of Public Order and Traffic (DOPC) who were in the process of carry out a check.

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Caught in a vice with a municipal police car that came to support to ensure compliance with the confinement rules, one of the police officers, hit on a wrist and lower limbs, was hospitalized in absolute emergency. Out of business, he is now in a “stable state” after undergoing an operation overnight. His colleague, more slightly injured, presents a fracture of the two fibulae. A third policeman, assigned to the Colombes municipal police, was released from the hospital. Youssef T., protected by the airbag, was arrested without offering any resistance. Despite his knife, his overwhelming written allegiance and references to Daesh, the police and magistrates were at first confused for hours, as the journey of this potential “cop killer” is confusing.

Acts of violence

Handler oscillating between odd jobs and periods of unemployment, Youssef T. certainly displayed behavioral disorders nourishing a whole medical file on which the national antiterrorist prosecutor's office has long looked. Tuesday morning, a psychiatric examination was carried out and concluded that there was no abolition or impairment of the judgment of the respondent. Unknown to the anti-terrorist services, Youssef T. does not appear in the File of reports for the prevention of radicalization with a terrorist character (FSPRT) and has never been filed S. His record just mentions acts of violence for which he was accused of 'a community service sentence in 2010. Anxious to identify the contours of the suspect, the police, accompanied by deminers and dogs, conducted a search of his home on the fourth floor of a building in the small town Audra, located north of the city, not far from where Youssef T. deliberately attempted to assassinate the police.

According to several testimonies, he never expressed his adherence to radical Islam, nor attended the prayer hall located just downstairs from his home.

After searching the apartment for at least two hours, they left with digital equipment under examination. As often in this type of case, the presumed soldier of Allah was considered by his neighborhood as "nice" , "discreet" and "uneventful" . According to several testimonies, he never expressed his adherence to radical Islam, nor attended the prayer hall located just downstairs from his home.

Archetype of the "hybrid", the deadly trajectory of Youssef T. is reminiscent of that of Abdallah Ahmed Osman, a Sudanese national also unknown to the specialized services who complained in writing of living in a "country of disbelievers ” before sowing death at the start of the month in Romans-sur-Isère. Nor, to a lesser extent, that of the convert Mickaël Harpon who, after a failure to detect in 2015, bereaved the Paris police headquarters on October 3. United in the same radical reading of religion, where hatred and a deep feeling of frustration mingle, these "neo-terrorists" defy all the screenings and multiply despite the turns of the screw given by the authorities. Confined or not, France will have to get used to fighting this gangrene. And develop an adapted response posture.

Source: lefigaro

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