Attacks in France: outstanding issues


Why were not the suspects also not monitored?


The brothers were known Kouachi counterterrorism services. The younger, Sherif, was convicted in 2008 for his involvement in the sector of 'Buttes Chaumont' ', a recruiting network of jihadist fighters to Iraq. Oldest Said, he had stayed in Yemen in 2011, where he attended the local branch of al-Qaida. The French authorities had been informed of his trip by US intelligence. As for Amedy Coulibaly, he was known for delinquency facts and had been in prison for an attempted escape project on one of the perpetrators of the attack against the RER in Paris in 1995.


The French authorities have recognized that Kouachi brothers were not closely watched because it '' There was no evidence regarding the witness to an impending attack. '' Other similar profiles, including jihadis recently returned from Syria are considered more dangerous and are the subject of special attention. You should also know that about twenty police officers are required to ensure the ongoing monitoring of a suspect.


Why he did Charlie Hebdo have been better protected?


Charb, the designer and responsible for the publication of the newspaper, enjoyed a close protection after numerous threats to the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. However, the police van, which was parked outside the offices permanently from arson, was withdrawn in September. A decision taken in agreement with the managers of the weekly pretext of lesser threats. However, police patrols, but more discrete, continued.


Why does she escape the killers lasted so long?


After the attack the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, the Kouachi brothers opened fire in the street at police officers attempting to question them. One of them was shot down in the street. In their flight, the terrorists then collide with a vehicle in the north of Paris and then decide to change cars, forgetting in a hurry with an identity card that will identify them. They shine a motorist and leave with his vehicle, a gray Clio. The two men reappear the next day in a gas station isolated in Villers-Cotterets, before disappearing again. 48 hours after the attacks, the police and the police found the suspects to Dammartin-en-Goële, where they take refuge in a printing house, their last stop.


Why she did not the police could not immediately link the attack of Charlie Hebdo and the shooting of Montrouge?


As Kouachi brothers, the author of the shooting of Montrouge managed to escape after killing a severely municipal police and wounded a road agent. The police lost track of lla suspect in the area of ​​defense. His car, a Clio, was found to Arceuil in the Val-de-Marne. The next day, someone broke into the kosher grocery Porte de Vincennes and took hostage several people. The police then established that it is the killer of Montrouge Amédy Coulibaly. She also knows that he knows Kouachi Sharif, whom he met in prison.


Where is Hayat Boumedienne?


Complicity suspected, the companion of Amedy Coulibaly would have left France a few days before the hostage-taking. On January 2, she indeed flew from Madrid towards Turkey, where she would have joined Syria. The young woman of 26 years had taken a flight back on January 9, but never mounted in the aircraft.


How are the terrorists are procured arms?


Kalashnikovs, rocket launchers ... The bombers had an arsenal of war they could have obtained on the black market. With what money? In a posthumous video, Amedy Coulibaly said to have provided several thousand euros to Kouachi brothers. For his part, Sharif Kouachi said in an interview on BFM TV have been funded by the US-Yemeni Islamist Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen.






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