In 2011, he deserted, learning that his unit will be deployed to secure Kabul airport. “”I would have felt to wage war against my Muslim Brotherhood “, He will say during his trial in 2015.
The tribulations of a radicalized Chechen between real life and social networks
In December 2013, he joined the ranks of the Al-Nosra Front, emanation of Al Qaeda in Syria. In June 2014, Harris Cimpaka was taken in a bombardment in the Homs region and had to be amputated with one foot. His father comes to look for him on the Turkish border. Back in Belgium, he was imprisoned in Lantin. The state of his second leg inspires the worst concerns. It is amputated with the second foot.
In September 2015, he appeared in a rolling chair in court which sentenced him to four years in prison suspended for terrorism. Once free, he requests a passport. Based on a classified OCAM (Coordination body for threat analysis), SPF Foreign Affairs refuses. The Council of State rejected its appeal in 2018. He then seized the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). His defense thus invokes the impossibility of having access to the OCAM report. Although since then Harris Cimpaka has obtained a passport, the ECHR decides on its appeal Thursday.
