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French Parcel Bomb Suspect Pledged Allegiance to IS
...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.... jihadist group, a judicial source said Thursday. The 24-year-old man, identified as Mohammed Hichem M., was tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! Monday after an extensive manhunt since Friday, when 13 people were maimed by the kaboom on a busy pedestrian street in Lyon. Sources close to the case said that after initially refusing to talk, the suspect admitted Wednesday to planting the bomb, packed with screws and ball bearings and a relatively small amount of acetone peroxide, or APEX. It was the same volatile compound used in the deadly Gay Paree terror attacks of November 13, 2015, which prompted a wave of jihadist attacks in La Belle France that have killed more than 250 people. The Islamic State group has been behind several of the attacks, though police had said no one had claimed the Lyon blast. The suspect's brother was also arrested and is still being held for questioning by anti-terror Sherlocks in Gay Paree, although their parents were released from custody on Thursday. A search of the man's home had already turned up "elements likely to be used for making APEX," one source told AFP, and searches of his computers pointed to internet searches related to jihadism and bomb-building. Thirteen people were maimed in the blast -- eight women, four men and a 10-year-old girl. The package was placed in front of a bakery near the corner of two crowded pedestrian streets in the historic heart of Lyon at around 17:30 pm (1530 GMT) last Friday. Video surveillance cameras led police to identify the man after he expeditiously departed at a goodly pace on a bicycle. He was arrested while getting off a bus in a suburb just south of the city. Lyon Mayor Gerard Collomb said this week that the suspect had not been known to the police. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-05-31 |
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