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Top French jihadist held after return from Syria
[al-Monitor] A high-profile French jihadist was charged with terrorist offences and remanded in jug on Saturday, a day after being transferred to La Belle France from ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , where he had turned himself in to authorities. Kevin Guiavarch, a 24-year-old who converted to Islam 10 years ago, was one of the UN's most wanted jihadists and had been placed on a blacklist in 2014. Suspected as being one of the major Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group recruiters attracting young French people to join the jihadist cause in Syria and Iraq, Guiavarch rubbed shoulders with some of the perpetrators of the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks while living in Raqa, IS's de facto capital. The former church choirboy, who was raised by a single mother in Brittany, now claims to be "reformed" -- though he has also told French author David Thomson, who wrote a book about returning jihadists, that he left IS because he was afraid of dying. He spent four years in Syria amongst jihadists, first with former al-Qaeda affiliate the Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... Front, and then IS. He quit Syria in June 2016 with his four French wives and six children, and went to Turkey where they were all placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... All four wives had already been deported to La Belle France. Guiavarch, who had been the subject of an international arrest warrant, arrived in the French capital on Friday night before on Saturday being charged with association of a criminal terrorist organization and financing terrorism, the Gay Paree prosecutor said. French authorities will now try to determine whether Guiavarch is truly reformed or part of a sleeper cell aiming to carry out attacks in La Belle France at a later date. What to do with returning jihadists -- whether claiming to be reformed or not -- is a major concern for many European countries. Posted by: Fred 2017-01-22 |
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