The two
French brothers on the run from police after massacring 12 people in
Paris were drug-taking petty criminals before being radicalised and sent
to Yemen to train as killers.
According to the Dailymail, Said
Kouachi, 34, and sibling Cherif, 32, are orphans who were brought up in
a care home in Brittany, northern France, before turning to a life of
crime and then ultimately mass murder.
The Dailymail said that Cherif’s
own lawyer once described him as an ‘apprentice loser’, a hashish
smoking pizza delivery driver who didn’t know what to do with his life.
Worryingly, their links to terror organisations have been known to authorities for ten years.
They
were first picked up by terror police in 2005, around the same time
Cherif appeared on TV claiming to be a rapper, when they were arrested
over links to a group operating in northern Paris.
Cherif
was arrested again in 2008 after trying to board a plane to Damascus
with an AK-47 operating manual, while both were named on police papers
in 2010 over a plot to break a known jidhadi out of jail.
No comments:
Post a Comment