They would be around fifty French people, according to the anti -terrorist services, to be part of the Omar Diaby brigade, alias “Omar Omsen”, one of the most famous figures in French -speaking jihad. A couple was indicted in Paris for the association of terrorist criminals and imprisoned on Tuesday, suspected of having wanted to join this sadly famous brigade in Syria, we learned from a source close to the file.
The woman was arrested as she was about to embark in Toulouse for Cyprus, according to the source close to the file. The man should have left a few days later.
The suspect, Alexia R., aged 21, appeared with a long black outfit at the hearing of the liberty and detention judge at the Paris court. His lawyer, Me Maria Snitsar, did not wish to comment, just like the lawyer of the man, Me Ambroise Vienet-Legué.
A “second plan” unit
Omar Diaby joined Syria in 2013 where he headed a jihadist brigade made up of young French people, mostly from the Nice region, like him. In September 2016, the United States described it as “international terrorist”. It is the subject of an arrest warrant for French justice.
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Arrested by the HTS group, in August 2020, he was released in February 2022 without the reasons for his arrest being communicated.
A “small fifty” people would appear in the group this Franco-Senegalese who became a preacher, said in December French security sources. Katiba (unit) D’Omar Diaby is a “restricted group” with “little income” and which is “relegated to the background”, observed the same sources.
In recent months, several other people have been implicated in France on comparable suspicions. At the end of April, a man presented by Le Figaro as a former genius soldier, Manuel B., born in 1984, had been indicted and imprisoned for having wanted to join with his wife the same group.
In mid-March, two men aged 19 and 24 suspected of also wanted to join the Omar Diaby brigade in Syria had been indicted in Paris and the youngest of the two nuts.
