“The ISB was not at the top on the Kouachi. Their documentation was not up to date”. In 2015, a police officer in charge of the mission to hunt down the killers of Charlie Hebdo admitted to Mediapart the weaknesses of the monitoring of the ISB on the brothers Kouachi, responsible for the slaughter of Charlie Hebdo, January 7 2015, where 12 people died. The justice had obtained the lifting of the secret defense of 41 notes to the counter-terrorism concerning the monitoring of the two terrorists but according to the site, the most important documents are not included in the batch declassified.
The stratagem of the brothers Kouachi. 41 notes disclosed to the justice reveal that Saïd and Cherif Kouachi were monitored in 2012 and 2013. Difficult, according to Mediapart, to be precise, as the declassified documents are dropped the the most sensitive elements. They reveal, however, several gaps in the oversight of the ISB, who are witnessing “first-hand” the evolution of Cherif Kouachi in the islamic movement of Buttes-Chaumont, in the years 2000.
In 2011, the american services, transmitted to the French a note informing them that Saïd Kouachi, his brother, and flew to the sultanate of Oman. In reality, it is of Cherif Kouachi who, of Oman, joined by Yemen, and the camps training of AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the arabian peninsula) using the passport of his brother to circumvent his control of the judiciary.
Maintaining the confusion over their identities, the brothers Kouachi are going to mislead the French and americans. In September 2011, the Americans are signalling exchange in an internet cafe in Gennevilliers with Peter Cherif, a former des Buttes-Chaumont, having fought in Iraq. The first reaction of the French is to concentrate on Said that, according to an old note of the ISB, has lived in the city of Hauts-de-Seine. “What does it matter,” writes Mediapart, “Said ram for two years in Reims”. That is important, too, that the cyber café is located in the street where they live for three years, his little brother Chérif.
Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, stuck S. In a year, 18 notes, are devoted to Cherif Kouachi, who now focused all the attention on counter-terrorism and a sheet S is emitted to the subject. His older brother also became, in 2011, filed S.
Mediapart assumes that “three” moles are placed in the entourage of Chérif Kouachi, who is also the object of a physical surveillance. Bugged in 2012, the alerts regarding Saïd Kouachi reveal that the man “rarely leaves his home”, “playing video games online with his brother” and “consults Internet sites”. They are stopped in 2013.
Alert point. In his investigation, Mediapart reports to the three major events of the monitoring of the brothers between 2010 and 2015. The trip in 2011, “Said Kouachi” – in reality, Chérif – to Oman to join the Yemen. A project of attack, in 2013, involving Peter Cherif, a member of AQAP, the man of the trade in internet cafe. Finally, the confirmation by the wife of a jihadist, from him also of the Buttes-Chaumont, a brother Kouachi had trained commando in the Yemen and had been commissioned by AQAP to perpetrate a terrorist attack in France.
On the 41 notes to the unclassified, three are written after the hearing of the woman. In two notes, after Charlie Hebdo, ISB explains that “monitoring physical were conducted at the home of Reims, but did not observe the person concerned”. Mediapart reveals that the notes issued to the justice does not mention “these surveillance point”.
transparency. In his investigation, Mediapart notes “the relative effort of transparency” of the intelligence services with the declassification of these 41 notes, then, that at the time of the case Merah, only 24 had been released. But some elements of the documents are removed to protect the “procedures and methods of work of [the] services” alluding, according to Mediapart, to censorship of the ministry of the Interior, in addition to those provided by the commission. For the time being, justice is still unaware of certain acts of investigation of the ISB, after the revelation of certain elements contained in the 41-notes.
A lack of transparency which, for the site, “casts doubt on this actually knew the intelligence services” on the brothers Kouachi. Services, under-staffed, had a more concentrated their efforts on the wave of departures from French to Syria, then in full expansion.
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