Abdelhamid Abaaoud

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Abdelhamid Abaaoud ( Arabic عبد الحميد أبا عود, DMG ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Abā ʿŪd , born April 8, 1987 in Anderlecht , Brussels-Capital Region ; † November 18, 2015 in Saint-Denis , France ), also known under the battle name Abu Omar al-Baldschiki ( French Abou Omar al-Baljīkī ) or Abou Omar el-Belgiki ("the Belgian") and Abou Omar (Al- ) Soussi, was a Belgian Islamist terrorist of Moroccan origin working for the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization . Among other things, he is considered the planner of the attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris .

Childhood and youth

Abdelhamid Abaaoud was born in 1987 as one of six children to Moroccan parents in Anderlecht in the Belgian region of Brussels-Capital. His father had come to Belgium from southern Morocco in 1975 and worked in a mine before opening a clothing store. Abaaoud grew up in the municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean north of Anderlecht and was a Belgian and Moroccan citizen . Molenbeek-Saint-Jean is known as a focus of Islamists and terrorists. There, during house searches in mid-January 2015, immediately after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, Kalashnikov assault rifles and explosives were found. The banned group Sharia4Belgium had also tried to recruit young men for jihad in the district. In the past, radical Islamists attacked police officers with knives and threatened people in the subway. There is an unemployment rate of over 30% in the community, the majority of the residents have Moroccan roots and the Muslim residents are increasingly isolating themselves.

Since his parents had ambitious goals for Abaaoud, they sent him to a school in the upscale residential area of Uccle , the Collège Saint-Pierre . From 1999 he went to school there for two years with children from the richest families in Brussels. Classmates at the time describe him in retrospect as a well-integrated student who got along with everyone, played soccer with a few boys and brought the atmosphere to the cosmopolitan class.

IS terrorism

Together with Salah Abdeslam , Abdelhamid Abaaoud is said to have committed various crimes in Brussels in 2010 and 2011 .

About two years before the attacks in Paris in 2015, Abdelhamid Abaaoud is said to have joined IS. He has since appeared in several jihadist propaganda videos under his battle name. Abaaoud posed in photos with his then 13-year-old brother Younes Abaaoud. He also lured them to Syria . The boy is holding weapons in his hands in the pictures.

On January 20, 2014 Abaaoud was checked at Cologne / Bonn Airport when he was about to leave for Istanbul . He was not prevented from continuing his journey, as the authorities said there was no reason to do so at the time. As it was registered in the Schengen Information System , the Belgian authorities were informed of this control. Allegedly he wanted to visit friends and acquaintances and then return to Cologne ; a later re-entry was not determined. According to information from security circles, he was already in Cologne in 2007, the background of the visit is unclear.

A year later, in January 2015, shortly after the attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris , Abaaoud traveled from Syria to Belgium to carry out attacks as the leader of a three-member jihadist cell. According to the investigators' findings, the trio intended to destroy kiosks in which the Charlie Hebdo edition, which appeared after the assassination of the editorial staff of the satirical magazine, was to be sold.

However, the Belgian police were able to thwart the attacks in good time. Before the group could realize their plans, their hiding place in Verviers, Belgium was stormed by police forces on January 15, 2015 . Two of the terrorists were killed in the course of the attack. Abaaoud was not in the apartment at the time of the raid; he was able to flee to Syria via Greece . He was probably able to fall back on a network of Islamists. In February 2015 he gave an interview to “ Dabiq ” - the English-language ISIS propaganda magazine - in which he explained that he had traveled to Europe with two like-minded people “to terrorize the crusaders who are waging war against the Muslims” If the attack plan failed, he managed to return to Syria, although the authorities in Greece had been on his trail. "All of this shows that a Muslim shouldn't fear the crusaders' intelligence services," he said.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud was then sentenced in absentia to twenty years in prison by a Belgian court at the end of July 2015 for recruiting fighters for the IS terrorist network. The judge described him as the most important IS recruiter in Belgium.

Authorities also suspect Abdelhamid Abaaoud to be behind the attack on a Thalys express train in August 2015. According to the French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve , Abaaoud was wanted before the attacks in Paris, as he is said to have been involved in four of six planned attacks since spring, Among other things, the Saint-Cyr-Sainte-Julitte church in the Paris suburb of Villejuif was supposed to be attacked in April .

The French state broadcaster France 2 showed pictures of the laughing Abaaoud in Syria after the attacks in Paris in November 2015 as he dragged several bodies behind his car. French media reported that the French Air Force attempted to kill Abaaoud by air strikes in an IS bunker in the IS stronghold of Ar-Raqqa .

Le Monde reported that the French Islamist Reda Hame, who had returned to France, had received € 2,000 from Abdelhamid Abaaoud with the task of attacking “simple targets like a concert hall” and killing as many people as possible in the process. Reda Hame is said to have said this to French investigators in August 2015.

Police raid on rue du Corbillon on November 18, 2015 in Saint-Denis

On November 18, 2015, Abaaoud was killed at the age of 28 in a seven-hour raid linked to the November 13, 2015 attacks on Rue du Corbillon in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. He was hit by several bullets and a shrapnel in the apartment that had been stormed - in which there were at least three people at the time - and was later identified by his fingerprint as his body was very disfigured. When one of the suspects blew himself up during the police operation, in which the police fired more than 5,000 shots, Abaaoud's 26-year-old French-Moroccan cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen (or Hasna Aït Boulahcen) also died after firing a volley one had fired Kalashnikovs . Since May 2013 she has been managing director of the construction company Beko Construction in Épinay-sur-Seine . The media previously reported that she had blown herself up. This was also because the apartment was very destroyed after the raid and the demolition (a hole in the outer wall and the ceiling had collapsed) and the body of the suicide bomber was only found on November 20, 2015; his head had fallen from the third floor when he stormed the apartment.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Abdelhamid Abaaoud tué à Saint-Denis. ( Memento from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: journalchretien.net, Journal Chretien, November 19, 2015, accessed on May 2, 2019 (French).
  2. ^ A b Elise Vincent: Ce que les services belges savaient d'Abdelhamid Abaaoud. In: lemonde.fr, Le Monde , November 20, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 (French): “On y apprend qu'Abdelhamid Abaaoud est né à Anderlecht, le 8 avril 1987”.
  3. ↑ Timothée Boutry, Thibault Raisse, Stéphane Sellami: L'ombre d'Abaaoud derrière les attentats. In: leparisien.fr, Le Parisien , November 17, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 (French): “Né en 1987, […]”.
  4. ↑ a b Jörg Diehl: Suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks: Killed IS terrorist Abdelhamid Abaaoud was also in Germany. In: spiegel.de, Spiegel Online , November 19, 2015, accessed on November 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ The alleged mastermind behind the Paris attacks is dead. In: welt.de, Die Welt , November 19, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015.
  6. ↑ This is the alleged mastermind behind the attacks in Paris. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de, Augsburger Allgemeine , November 16, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015.
  7. ^ Belgium Confronts the Jihadist Danger Within. In: nytimes.com, New York Times , January 24, 2015, accessed November 22, 2015.
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  9. ↑ a b Didier Bauweraerts, Isopix, Sipa: Abdelhamid Abaaoud: qui est le donneur d'ordre de Daesh en Europe, ciblé par une opération de police? In: linternaute.com, Linternaute, November 16, 2015, accessed November 22, 2015 (French).
  10. ↑ Qui est Abdelhamid Abaaoud, le jihadiste qui nargue toutes les polices? In: dhnet.be, Dernière Heure, November 17, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 (French).
  11. ↑ "J'ai honte pour mon fils Abdelhamid". In: dhnet.be, Dernière Heure, January 20, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 (French).
  12. ↑ Cellule terrorist de Verviers: le père du “suspect n ° 1” sera partie civile contre son propre fils! In: dhnet.be, Dernière Heure, May 1, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 (French).
  13. ↑ Christoph B. Schiltz: “Islamist terrorists are not noticed here”. In: welt.de, Die Welt , November 15, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015.
  14. ↑ Abdelhamid Abaaoud, l'homme le plus recherché de Belgique a fréquenté une école huppée. ( Memento of November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: sudinfo.be, January 21, 2015, accessed on November 18, 2015 (French).
  15. ↑ a b c masterminds of the attacks: Federal police let Abaaoud travel to Turkey. In: faz.net, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 19, 2015, accessed on November 19, 2015.
  16. ↑ a b c Live ticker on terror in Europe. In: n-tv.de, n-tv , November 19, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015.
  17. ↑ a b Christoph Sydow: The man behind the assassin: The trail to the terror godfather. In: spiegel.de, Spiegel Online , November 16, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015.
  18. ↑ Abdelhamid Abaaoud - The mastermind of terror. in: cicero.de, Cicero , November 16, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015.
  19. ↑ Cellule démantelée en Belgique: le "cerveau" revendique la preparation d'attentats. In: dhnet.be, Dernière Heure, February 12, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 (French).
  20. ↑ Paris assassin Salah Abdeslam, according to his brother, "a normal boy". ( Memento from November 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: berliner-kurier.de, Berliner Kurier , November 16, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015.
  21. ↑ Kirsten Ripper: Abdelhamid Abaaoud - the alleged client. In: de.euronews.com, Euronews , November 16, 2015, accessed on November 18, 2015.
  22. ^ "Filière syrienne": 20 ans pour Abaaoud et les frères Lachiri, 12 ans pour Zerkani. In: rtbf.be, July 29, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 (French).
  23. ↑ a b Soren Seelow: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, l'instigateur présumé des attentats tué à Saint-Denis. In: lemonde.fr, Le Monde , November 16, 2015, accessed on November 19, 2015 (French).
  24. ↑ Saint-Denis: cousin of the posting planner Abaaoud did not blow himself up. In: spiegel.de, Spiegel Online , November 20, 2015, accessed on May 24, 2020.
  25. ↑ Hasna Ait Boulahcen, décédée durant l'assaut de Saint-Denis, n'est pas morte en kamikaze. In: tempsreel.nouvelobs.com, November 20, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 (French).
  26. ^ Liquidation judiciaire Beko Construction. In: ProcedureCollective.fr, November 20, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 (French).
  27. ↑ Who Is Hasna Aitboulahcen? Paris Female Suicide Bomber Detonates During Saint-Denis Raid. In: dailyentertainmentnews.com, Daily Entertainment News, November 18, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015.
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  29. ↑ Saint-Denis: cousin of the posting planner Abaaoud did not blow himself up. In: spiegel.de, Spiegel Online , November 20, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015.
  30. ↑ Violette Lazard: Info Obs. Salah Abdeslam aurait craqué au moment de passer à l'acte. In: tempsreel.nouvelobs.com, November 20, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Abaaoud, Abdelhamid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES al-Baldschiki, Abu Omar (pseudonym); el-Belgiki, Abou Omar (pseudonym); (Al-) Soussi; Abou Omar (pseudonym); al-Baljīkī, Abou Omar (pseudonym); al-Baljiki, Abou Omar (pseudonym); عبد الحميد عبود; ʿAbbūd, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan-Belgian terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Anderlecht , Brussels Capital Region , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 2015
Place of death Saint-Denis , Île-de-France , France