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Trial of November 13: flaws in the Belgian surveillance of Osama Atar, mastermind of the attacks

2021-12-02T20:07:15.773Z


REPORT OF THE HEARING - The court dissected the course of the sponsor of the attacks of November 13, 2015. The jihadist seems to have benefited from an astonishing lightness on the part of the Belgian intelligence services.


In Syria, Osama Atar was "

a legend

". The main sponsor of the November 13 attacks succeeded in the feat of becoming, according to the DGSI, "

the European with the highest functions in the terrorist organization

", after having stayed in American prisons in Iraq, then found the freedom while it was in the hands of the Belgian authorities in 2012. Its course, dissected at length in front of the specially composed assize court on Thursday, feeds lively debates. The lightness with which the Belgian intelligence services monitored this jihadist with an alarming profile - presumed dead in the Iraqi-Syrian zone in 2017 - raises many questions, some seeing it as an abortive attempt to make him a "

double agent

".

Read also At the trial of the attacks of November 13, the explosive cocktail of jihadists

"

We do not have the capacity to rewrite

history

", observes in the preamble the agent of the DR3 - the Belgian anti-terrorism services -, indicating that the investigation into Osama Atar only started on November 14, 2015, the the day after the attacks.

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Source: lefigaro

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