Two women from the entourage of the family of Mohammed Merah will be presented this Friday, October 7 to an anti-terrorism judge for an indictment in an open judicial investigation for association of terrorist criminals, the prosecution told AFP. counter-terrorism (Pnat).
Six women from the entourage of Mohammed Merah's family were arrested on Tuesday in Toulouse and Albi, but four of them have since been released, without prosecution at this stage.
Indictment in sight
The Pnat said on Friday that it had opened a judicial investigation for criminal association of criminal terrorists and evasion by a parent of its legal obligations compromising the health, safety, morals or education of their child.
The last two women are presented to an anti-terrorism magistrate for an indictment, according to this source.
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The preliminary investigation, entrusted to the anti-terrorist sub-directorate (Sdat), had been open since 2014. Among these women, aged 31 to 43, some had left with their children for Syria.
According to other sources familiar with the matter, some are suspected of having contributed to the departure in Syria in 2014 of Mohammed Merah's sister, Souad, who then went to Algeria.
New survey items
Suspected for several years by the anti-terrorism justice, several of them had already been heard and then released.
But, new elements led the investigators to hear them again.
They are part of the entourage of the Merah family, but are not members of the family.
More than ten years ago, Mohammed Merah killed seven people, between March 11 and 19, 2012, in Montauban and Toulouse.
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He had assassinated three soldiers (Imad Ibn Ziaten, Abel Chennouf and Mohamed Legouad), a professor and three Jewish children (Jonathan Sandler, his sons Arié and Gabriel, and Myriam Monsonégo) before being killed by the police after a siege of 32 hours followed by the media around the world.
His brother Abdelkader was definitively sentenced in 2020 to thirty years' imprisonment for complicity in his crimes.
