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• Bayonne Mosque Shooting Victims Stable After Surgery, Investigation Continues
  31 October 2019, by Ginette

  The Prefecture of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques has provided some information on the two septuagenarians seriously injured during the attack on the Bayonne mosque. Their lives are no longer in danger.
  The two men, aged 74 and 78, who had been hit, one in the neck, the other in the chest and arm, seem to be leaving the stage of vital prognosis engaged for that of stability, after a surgical intervention.
  The President of the Association of Muslims of the Basque Coast, Abdellatif Boutaty, (…)

• Former Morocco Resident Charged in Bayonne Mosque Attack, Reveals Complex Past
  2 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  The perpetrator of the Bayonne mosque attack had studied and done his military service in Morocco, then under French protectorate. At the time, he had wanted to obtain Moroccan nationality. In his book entitled "France with an Open Heart or Human Misery", he talks about his childhood and his tendency towards Islamophobia.
  Enigmatic character, Claude Sinké who injured two people during the attack on the Bayonne mosque, is the subject of an investigation led by the French authorities.
  The (…)

• Mosque Attack Suspect’s 2015 Photo with Le Pen Sparks Controversy for Far-Right Party
  4 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  The controversy is raging around a photo taken in 2015 showing Claude Sinké, the author of the attack on the Bayonne mosque, Marine Le Pen, President of the Rassemblement national (RN), the former Front national (FN), and other candidates in the cantonal elections.
  Social networks are raging after the release of this shot taken by the photographer, Isabelle Louvier, reports Sudouest. For its part, the Rassemblement national (RN) is trying to get out of this embarrassing situation.
  After (…)

• Terror Threat Delays Reopening of Spain-Morocco Border Crossing at Ceuta
  6 November 2019, by Ginette

  The opening of the passage in the city of Sebta did not take place on October 28 as planned. Moroccan and Spanish authorities have decided to keep the passage closed to prevent possible infiltration of certain terrorists and threats of attacks.
  The prolonged closure of the Tarajal II border crossing has angered smugglers and some traders, while part of the population has welcomed this decision given the disorder that this crossing is experiencing.
  Moroccan sources mention religious and (…)

• Grenade Attack on Moroccan Family in Belgium: Police Seek Emergency Records to Advance Investigation
  10 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  Following a grenade attack targeting a Moroccan family in Belgium, an investigating judge would like to have the emergency records in order to further the ongoing investigation.
  In the night of September 1st to 2nd in Borgerhout, a cyclist had thrown a grenade at a van, recall Het Nieuwsblad and Gazet van Antwerpen. According to the same sources, he would have been injured in the hands.
  Thereupon, the federal police had opened an investigation. Similarly, it had issued a wanted notice (…)

• Belgian ISIS Brides Escape Syrian Camp, Flee to Turkey
  9 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  Two women from the city of Antwerp have managed to escape from the Al-Hol camp in Syria.
  Kaoutar Bioui, 32, and Rahma Benmezian, 31, would be in Turkey after fleeing Syria, report the two Belgian media, VTM Nieuws and Het Laatste Nieuws.
  These two Belgian jihadists are among the 15 foreign terrorist fighters, including four women convicted by default for terrorism in Belgium, according to a note submitted in October to the Chamber by the Coordination and Analysis Body of the Threat (…)

• French Intelligence Officer Reveals Encounters with Future Terrorists in New Book
  14 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  His name is well known in the 93 where he has been hunting down radical Islam. Noam Anouar, 43, a cop in the General Intelligence (RG), and author of the book "La France doit savoir", opens up.
  2008 marked the beginning of his fight against radical Islam. Noam Anouar had met those who would make headlines through attacks carried out between 2010 and 2015.
  This cop had crossed paths with Farid Benyettou, a Salafist preacher, Kouachi, one of the perpetrators of the attack on the satirical (…)

• Teen Couple Faces Trial for 2017 Eiffel Tower Terror Plot
  17 November 2019, by Ginette

  Two young suspects, Sara Z. and Thomas S., have just been referred to the special assize court for minors for planning the attack on the Eiffel Tower in 2017.
  Their love story could have been ordinary if, in the middle of all this, there had not been outbursts of terrorism. Indeed, according to Le Parisien, Sara Z. was only 16 years old and was looking for her identity in the midst of an adolescent crisis. This is how she converted to Islam and sympathized with Thomas S., who was 20 years (…)

• Saint-Denis Building Raided in 2015 Paris Attacks to be Demolished
  19 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  On November 18, 2015, the Raid police had stormed the building at number 48, rue de la République, in Saint-Denis, to arrest the alleged organizer of the November 13, 2015 attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Four years later, the 48 is likely to be demolished due to its advanced state of dilapidation.
  Four years later, the ghost building is still standing, still empty, with only one sign of life: a young tree has lodged its roots in the facade, just above an old public phone booth, observes Le (…)

• Moroccan Security Forces Thwart ISIS-Inspired Suicide Attack Plot in Salé
  27 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  Elements of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) arrested a 33-year-old individual, an extremist and supporter of Daesh, this Tuesday, November 26, 2019. The arrest took place at his home in Salé as he was about to carry out a suicide attack.
  Another attack thwarted by the elements of the DGST. The daily Assabah, relying on consistent sources, noted that the entourage of the accused did not realize that the latter had adopted the terrorist ideology of Daesh, to the (…)