He is the third in less than three months to have tried to join this mysterious group. A former soldier suspected of having sought to join the group of French jihadist Omar Diaby In Syria was indicted and imprisoned on April 29, the National Anti -terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) told AFP on Friday, confirming information from the information Figaro.
“An individual was indicted by the head of association of terrorist criminals for the preparation of one or more crimes of involvement for people and placed in pre -trial detention on April 29. He is suspected of having sought to join a jihadist group in Syria, “said the PNAT, without further details.
According to Le Figaro, it is Manuel B., a former genius soldier, born in 1984 well known to anti -terrorist services. He would have liked to join, with his wife, the French jihadist band Omar Diaby, alias Omar Omsen, who left Nice for Syria in 2013, and considered to be the recruiter of dozens of jihadists, according to the daily.
This group of around fifty individuals would live reclined in a camp located North west of Syrianear the Turkish border and would have rather cold relationships with the new Syrian power.
A chaotic course
According to our colleagues, Manuel B. would have converted to Islam during a mission to Djibouti in 2008 and was allegedly struck off in the army in 2014. It was almost at that time that the ex-soldier, back in France, in Angers, began to be followed by the intelligence services.
He was briefly under house arrest, at the end of 2015, after the attacks of Paris and Saint-Denis, then flies to Morocco with his wife and daughter where he is again arrested in possession of weapons and returned to France.
The former soldier certainly tried to be forgotten for several years without giving up his projects since last April, he flies to Jordan with the ambition of winning the Diaby group in Syria. He is again arrested, transferred to Lebanon which in turn repatriated it to France. It was on the descent of the plane on April 29, that the French police finally pass the handcuffs.
Mi-mars, two men aged 19 and 24 suspected of having wanted to join the Omar Diaby brigade in Syria had already been indicted in Paris and the youngest of the two imprisoned.
