The mobile phone was hidden between the dresser and the wall in the room of 15-year-old Malik (the first name has been changed). The iPhone was discovered during a house search and revealed the deadly obsessions of this middle school student from a suburb of Tours (Indre-et-Loire). To begin with, there is this video. Under the combat name “Abu Souleyman Al-Faransi”, the teenager, whose doll-like face reveals that he is extremely young, videotapes himself in a white Qamis, with a keffieh on his head and a shoulder holster carrying a blank pistol.
After holding the gun up to the camera, he threatens, “Oh Occident, (…) we are returning home to kill you like you killed our women and children in Sham. Allah Akbar!” There are also searches about making explosives, downloading articles reporting Daech attacks in Israel… And above all, these disturbing conversations with many other radicalised minors from all over Europe.
Malik is at the centre of an attack plot that was recently foiled by the police of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI). It is a surprising case that brings into sharp focus the current terrorist threat and the new generation of jihad. Malik is suspected of having masterminded, with several accomplices, an anti-Semitic attack on an Israeli embassy, specifically the one near Brussels.
The investigation uncovered a terror cell in France and Belgium involving youths of different nationalities who were connected via encrypted messengers and video games. The cell had a clear desire for worldwide respect and the goal of being recognised by the Islamic State (IS),” says a report by the DGSI. (…) With their desire to kill civilians residing in the West, their hatred turned against the Jewish community.”
So far, four suspects have been arrested in France and Belgium. Three were charged with “criminal terrorist organisation” by an anti-terrorism judge in Paris on August 31 and September 8. They are a 15-year-old Frenchman – Malik – and two 16-year-old Russians of Chechen and Ingush descent. The last one, a 16-year-old Belgian, was charged with terrorism in Brussels.
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