Two women from Mohamed Merah’s family will appear before an anti-terrorism judge this Friday, October 7, for indictment as part of an open court investigation into the association of terrorist criminals, the prosecutor’s office told AFP. anti-terrorism (PNAT).
Six women from Mohamed Merah’s family circle were arrested on Tuesday in Toulouse and Albi, but four of them have since been released without prosecution at this stage.
Indictment in sight
The Pnat said on Friday that it has launched a judicial investigation into the criminal association of criminal terrorists and the avoidance of its legal obligations by parents who endanger the health, safety, morals or education of their child. According to the source, the last two women were presented to the anti-terrorism court for indictment.
The investigation, which was entrusted to the anti-terrorist unit (Sdat), was open since 2014. Some of those women, aged between 31 and 43, had left for Syria with their children. According to other sources familiar with the matter, some are suspected of having facilitated the departure in 2014 of Mohamed Merah’s sister, Souad, in Syria, who then traveled to Algeria.
New survey items
Some of them, suspected by anti-terrorist justice for several years, had already been heard and then released. But new elements made investigators listen to them again. They are close to Merah’s family, but not family members. More than ten years ago, Mohammed Merah killed seven people between 11 and 19 March 2012 in Montauban and Toulouse.
He killed three soldiers (Imad Ibn Ziaten, Abel Chennouf, and Mohamed Leguad), a professor, and three Jewish children (Jonathan Sandler, his sons Arieh and Gabriel, and Miriam Monsonego) before being killed by police after a 32-hour siege. by media around the world. His brother Abdelkader was finally sentenced to thirty years in prison in 2020 for his complicity in the crime.
Source: Le Figaro
