Algerian charged with involvement in Isis Paris terror attacks

A Paris memorial for the 2015 terrorist attacks

  BARI - Athmane Touami, a 36 year old Algerian thought to be a member of Islamic State, has been issued with a detention order on suspicion of providing fake documents to the gunmen in the Nov. 13, 2015, terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, police sources said Tuesday.

  The 2015 terrorist attacks were the deadliest in France since the Second World War with 130 people being killed, including 90 in the Bataclan Theatre.

  The suspect, also known as Tomi Mahraz, was arrested on Monday by police in Bari. Investigators from the General Investigations and Special Operations Division (DIGOS) and the Counter Terrorism Service  allege that he was responsible for providing the counterfeit documents for the perpetrators of the attacks.

  Touami, who has for a long time been providing extremist organisations with counterfeit documents, is in fact already in jail in Bari for the possession of fake documents allowing him to travel freely through the Schengen area, and was due to be released in June. 

  Along with his brothers, Medhi and Lyes, he is also known to have worked with Khalid Zerkani and the late Abdelhamid Abaaoud throughout Italy, Spain, Syria, Belgium, France and Algeria. Abaaoud was the mastermind behind the Paris attacks and died in a shootout with police five days later.

 
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