René Marc Sepac

René Marc Sepac (* 1980 in Bremen ) is a German Salafist and Islamist activist.

Life

René Sepac was born in Bremen to a Malaysian father and a German mother. As a former Catholic, he converted to Islam. Since 2006 he has followed the fundamentalist ideology of the Taqfiris . These do not accept any legal system that deviates from Sharia law. They therefore also see the free democratic basic order as not valid for themselves and withdraw into a parallel society. There laws and legal procedures apply that they see covered by Sharia law.

Sepac was the contact person of the European jihad scene for the German scene. He supported the German and English language propaganda production Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF). He also maintained connections with the Al Qaeda network.

Tapped phone calls from the spring of 2007 show that Sepac wanted to practice house- to- house fighting with another Islamist on a disused military site near Bremen. In 2009 Sepac traveled to Iran via Turkey. From there he wanted to travel to a terror camp in the Afghan-Pakistani border region. However, he missed his smuggler in Tehran. On his return, German authorities withdrew his passport.

Since his plans to go to jihad had failed, Sepac founded the Islamic Culture & Family Association e. V. in the Bremen district of Gröpelingen. He became chairman of the association. In 2014, the Bremen Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumed that eight men, five women and seven children from the area around the association had moved into the civil war in Syria . On December 5, 2014, the association was banned by the Bremen Senator for the Interior, Ulrich Mäurer ; the club rooms were searched.

According to a media report from July 2009, Sepac has been under constant surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution "for more than half a year". Furthermore, he would have been monitored around the clock by officials from the State Criminal Police Office and his apartment had already been searched twice. Sepac's sympathizers are said to have stabbed the tires of an observation vehicle.

Because of his departure for Afghanistan he was indicted in the Koblenz district court. Sepac later said of his trip that he only wanted to buy perfume in Iran. Besides, he is a good Muslim.

In 2012 Sepac was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by the Munich Higher Regional Court. He was charged with preparing Osama bin Laden's messages in the global Islamic media front GIMF for German users. Furthermore, his two attempts to join the terrorist jihad were proven.

Allegedly he recruited two fellow prisoners in the JVA Bremen who went to Syria after their release. The detention ended in February 2016. In April 2016 there were allegedly assaults within the Salafist scene in Bremen, which among other things led to investigations into dangerous bodily harm against Sepac. According to the Bremen public prosecutor's office, Sepac and others are believed to have agreed to kill two people.

literature

Wolf Schmidt: Young, German, Taliban . CH Links Verlag, p. 113 ( Google Books ).
Guido Steinberg: German Jihad: On the Internationalization of Islamist Terrorism . Columbia University Press, pp. 131, pp. 134 ff. ( Google Books ).

References and comments

↑ ^a ^b Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of the Interior and Sport, State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2011 . May 2012, p. 40 (PDF).
↑ Hubert Gude, Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt: Terrorism: "You will still regret that". In: Der Spiegel , No. 10/2016, March 5, 2016, accessed on December 5, 2018.
↑ Hubert Gude: Muslims against Muslims . In: Der Spiegel , No. 14/2014, March 31, 2014.
^ ^A ^b Offensive against Salafists . In: Die Tageszeitung , regional edition North / Bremen, 23 October 2014.
↑ ^a ^b Bremen in the focus of European Islamism . In: Die Welt , July 12, 2009.
↑ Hubert Gude: Bremen: Dispute among Salafists triggered a major raid . In: Spiegel Online , April 26, 206, accessed December 5, 2018.
^ Gerhard Piper: The infiltration of the refugee flows by jihadists . In: Telepolis , September 18, 2016, accessed on December 5, 2018 (No. 4 of the list “Terrorist attacks and attempted attacks in 2016”).

personal data
SURNAME	Sepac, René Marc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	S., René Marc; Sepac, Renee Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Islamist activist
DATE OF BIRTH	1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen

[HH-VSB2011-1] Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of the Interior and Sport, State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2011 . May 2012, p. 40 (PDF).

[2] Hubert Gude, Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt: Terrorism: "You will still regret that". In: Der Spiegel , No. 10/2016, March 5, 2016, accessed on December 5, 2018.

[3] Hubert Gude: Muslims against Muslims . In: Der Spiegel , No. 14/2014, March 31, 2014.

[taz2014-4] A ^b Offensive against Salafists . In: Die Tageszeitung , regional edition North / Bremen, 23 October 2014.

[welt09-5] Bremen in the focus of European Islamism . In: Die Welt , July 12, 2009.

[6] Hubert Gude: Bremen: Dispute among Salafists triggered a major raid . In: Spiegel Online , April 26, 206, accessed December 5, 2018.

[7] Gerhard Piper: The infiltration of the refugee flows by jihadists . In: Telepolis , September 18, 2016, accessed on December 5, 2018 (No. 4 of the list “Terrorist attacks and attempted attacks in 2016”).