Has it, at its level, made it possible to finance the attacks of November 13, 2015?
The mother of Foued Mohamed Aggad, one of the three perpetrators of the Bataclan attack, is due to appear before the Paris Criminal Court on Thursday for “financing of terrorism”.
Prosecuted for "terrorist association", according to the details of a judicial source, Fatima Hajji, 53, is suspected of having paid money to her son and his wife in 2014 and 2015. The couple was then installed in the Iraqi-Syrian zone.
His widow presumed dead
Foued Mohamed Aggad's widow, Hajira Belkhir, is being prosecuted for "terrorist criminal association" when she was in Turkey, Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. However, the young woman, born in January 1992, is presumed dead : she was killed in early 2018 in a bombing with the daughter she had in 2015 in Iraq with the suicide bomber, according to the daily Les Latest Nouvelles d'Alsace.
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Originally from Wissembourg (Bas-Rhin), Foued Mohamed Aggad left for Syria in December 2013 with other members of the so-called Strasbourg sector.
Hajira Belkhir, originally from Strasbourg, had joined him in March 2014 and married religiously.
After his departure, Foued Mohamed Aggad had maintained regular contact with his mother and family.
In June, six members of his family, including his mother and aunt, were arrested in the Bas-Rhin and Gironde as part of a preliminary investigation by the national anti-terrorism prosecution for "financing of terrorism".
They were believed to have transferred funds to the couple in 2014 and 2015.
Clear exchanges between the terrorist and his mother
At the end of their police custody, they were released without prosecution, while the digital media seized during the searches were used.
In the end, the investigation only retained the involvement of Foued Mohamed Aggad's mother.
"In his exchanges with his mother, he indicated that, if he had to return to France, it would only be to commit an attack", according to elements resulting from the investigation into the attacks of November 13, whose trial is taking place. currently before the Special Assize Court.
Foued Mohamed Aggad cut ties with his family at the end of August 2015, after telling him that he was going to "die a martyr", according to police notes.
He had returned illegally to France in the summer of 2015 to commit the Bataclan attack.
