Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray: note suggesting an imminent attack … – The Point

“The individual whose photograph following figure would be willing to participate in an attack on the country. It is already present in France and could act alone or with others. The date, the target and modus operandi are known at this time. Investigations are underway to identify and locate the … “

The note of the Coordination Unit of the fight against terrorism (UCLAT) entitled” Threats against the national territory ” and distributed to all police last weekend, was right. The picture accompanying the text is that of Abdel Malik Petitjean. The latter was identified through DNA samples as the second terrorist accomplice Adel Kermiche in the assassination of the church’s priest in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, said the Paris prosecutor. Aged 19, Abdel Malik Petitjean was stuck “S” since June 29 for trying to reach Syria via Turkey. But he had not been the subject of convictions and justice did not have his fingerprints nor his DNA, which delayed his identification, finally made possible by DNA samples taken from his mother.

It is therefore understandable why anti-terrorism agencies were unaware who was really Abdel Malik Petitjean. The intelligence had made it a priority to identify and find the “absolute urgency”, as indicated in Point.fr a source in ISB.

Journey and Montlucon Seine-Maritime

Abdel Malik Petitjean, a native of Aix-les-Bains, moved regularly between Montlucon, the town where his mother lives, and Seine-Maritime, which lies another part of his family

in the video tour. – undoubtedly – the stairs of the house of Adel Kermiche, the two assassins pledge allegiance to the leader of Daech, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Abdel Malik Petitjean appears to be the follower. Adel K., who reports in Arabic as “Ibn Omar” (Omar’s son), swear to kill all infidels, taking the arm of his accomplice renamed “Abu Jahid al-Hanafi” which seems to indicate that Abdel Malik is a neophyte in the Salafi commitment. His cry “Allahu Akbar” is barely audible.

The delay in identifying the second assailant Satin-Étienne-du-Rouvray confirms the lack of human resources and available sources Salafist circles and wider urban and suburban cities. Do not I pay today the sidelining increasingly frequent intelligence officers from these districts?