Mohamed Abrini

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Najim Laachraoui (left), Ibrahim El Bakraoui (center) and presumably Mohamed Abrini (right)

Mohamed Abrini (born December 27, 1984 in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe / Sint-Agatha-Berchem ) is a Belgian suspected Islamist terrorist of Moroccan descent who is suspected of being a member of the Islamic State terrorist organization in carrying out the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris and on March 22, 2016 in Brussels .

Life

Little is known to the public about the person and biography of Abrinis. He was born the son of Moroccan immigrants in a Brussels municipality, grew up in Belgium and is a Belgian citizen. His family lives in the Brussels municipality of Molenbeek . The Belgian police had known him for some time through theft and drug offenses.

Abrini was targeted as a terrorist suspect after surveillance camera images from a gas station in Ressons-sur-Matz , a small town on the A1 Brussels-Paris autoroute, were evaluated on November 24, 2015 , which he and the main bomber took on November 11, 2015 of the Paris attacks showed Salah Abdeslam . There Abrini was seen getting into a black Renault Clio with Abdeslam . This car was later identified as the perpetrator's vehicle in the Paris attacks on November 13, 2015 . Abrini's DNA and fingerprints were also found in the car . Abrini's traces were later also found in two conspiratorial apartments in Brussels. After months of searching, Abdeslam was arrested by the Belgian police on March 18, 2016 in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, while Abrini remained on the run.

Shortly before the terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, 2016 , surveillance cameras at Brussels Airport recorded three people, two of whom were identified as the bomb bombers Ibrahim El Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui, who were killed in the suicide attack. The identity of the third person, who was dressed in a light-colored jacket and hat, and their possible involvement in the assassination initially remained unclear. It has been suggested that it was Abrini.

On April 8, 2016, Mohamed Abrini and five other people were arrested by the Belgian police in the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht . Four of those arrested are accused of participating in terrorist attacks with an Islamist background. After his arrest, Abrini said he was the wanted "man in the hat" at Brussels Airport.

Court hearings

Mohamed Abrini is said to have met the future terrorist Abdelhamid Abaaoud when Abrini traveled from Belgium to Turkey in 2015 after his brother, an IS fighter, had previously been killed in Syria. Abrini is said to have traveled to Birmingham on behalf of Abaaoud in July 2015 , where he met Zakaria Boufassil.

During the trial against Boufassil in Kingston Crown Court in London, where he was charged with aiding terrorism, it was alleged that he met Mohamed Abrini in Birmingham in July 2015 and handed him £ 3,000 . According to the prosecution, the money came from social assistance payments that had accumulated in Anouar Haddouchi's bank account . Haddouchi was a man registered in Birmingham who, like Abrini, also came from Belgium, but was meanwhile fighting for IS in Syria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mohamed Abrini ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Interpol website . Retrieved April 9, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.interpol.int
  2. ↑ Arrested in Brussels on suspicion of terrorism. Who is Mohamed Abrini? Bild.de . April 9, 2016, Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  3. ^ Paris Terror Attacks: New Suspect Sought. msn.com, November 24, 2015, accessed April 9, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Belgium attacks: Mohamed Abrini 'admits being man in the hat'. BBC News, April 9, 2016, accessed April 9, 2016 .
  5. ^ Robert-Jan Bartunek, Alastair Macdonald: Belgians seize key suspects in Paris, Brussels attacks. Reuters, April 9, 2016, accessed April 9, 2016 .
  6. ^ A b Martin Evans, Lexi Finnigan: "British benefits payments used to fund Paris and Brussels attack suspects' campaign of terror, court hears" The Telegraph of November 24, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Abrini, Mohamed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian suspected terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Berchem-Sainte-Agathe / Sint-Agatha-Berchem