A Frenchman who was charged and detained on November 18 is suspected of having been a member of a group close to Al-Qaeda. He was sponsored by his religious wife, who used prostitution.
He calls himself a “citizen of the world” (Citoyen du monde) on social media. She calls herself “Inès voilée” (veiled Ines). Behind these pseudonyms hide a young man and a young woman, Nael A. and Malicia J., with a love story that is surprising to say the least. After meeting on an online video game platform, they fell in love at first glance and married religiously at a distance, simply by sending an audio recording via the messenger Signal.
A marriage between two Muslims who each have a very personal reading of the Koran. In the process, initial lies are uncovered on both sides. To his bride, Nael A. initially claims to live near Paris. In reality, he is in Syria in the ranks of a jihadist group close to Al-Qaeda. To her husband, Malicia J. justifies her high income by trading in clothes. In reality, she sells her charms at a rapid pace on the ‘streetwalkers’ patch’ by pretending to be an Algerian, which she is not….
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They found out that he had sent photos to one of his friends in France in which he proudly poses with heavy weapons: Kalashnikov, machine gun, automatic pistol… In another picture he is wearing an explosive belt. Once I sent him a message to ask him for news and he told me: “I went to the front, I’m sorry, we beheaded people and then we looted them, we took everything”, this friend of Nael A. confided to the DGSI policemen. He even told me: ‘That’s how it was at the time of the Prophet. (…) He also told me that if he came back to France and saw a Frenchman, he would cut his throat.” www.leparisien.fr