The procedure is speeding up for Karim Mohamed-Aggad. The brother of one of the Bataclan killers was arrested on Friday in Alsace, two weeks after having been stripped of French nationality, and placed under deportation proceedings, we learned from reliable sources.
Karim Mohamed-Aggad was arrested at dawn by the GIGN (National Gendarmerie Intervention Group) at his home in Wissembourg, a town in the north of Bas-Rhin located on the German border, said a source close to the case. , confirming information from Latest News from Alsace (DNA).
The operation “is part of the fight against radicalization and the removal of people posing a danger to the security of our country requested by the Minister” of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, commented the prefect of Bas -Rhin Josiane Chevalier. She specified that the man had been sent to the Administrative Detention Center (CRA) in Metz with a view to his expulsion, “as quickly as possible we hope”. The use of GIGN gendarmes during the arrest takes place in “extremely dangerous cases” so that it is “safe”, observed Josiane Chevalier.
The decree depriving Karim Mohamed-Aggad of French nationality was published on November 15 in the Official Journal. The man, born in July 1990 in Wissembourg, is the brother of Foued Mohamed-Aggad, who died during the Bataclan attack on November 13, 2015. With two accomplices, he murdered 90 people in the Parisian performance hall.
A past in prison
According to DNA, Karim Mohamed-Aggad was sentenced in 2016 to nine years of imprisonment for criminal conspiracy in connection with a terrorist enterprise, after having spent several months in the ranks of the Islamic State group in Syria. According to the regional daily, he has Algerian and Moroccan nationalities.
His arrest took place a month and a half after the Arras attack during which the assailant, Mohammed Mogouchkov, originally from the Russian Caucasus and raised in France, killed a French teacher, Dominique Bernard, and injured three others people.
On the evening of the attack, Gérald Darmanin expressed on TF1 his wish to be able to “expel all those who, even when they are two or three years old, are foreigners and deserve to return to their country of origin because they do not respect the rules of the Republic.”