French Intelligence Officer Reveals Encounters with Future Terrorists in New Book

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 newspaper Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, Samy Amimour, the Bataclan suicide bomber from Drancy, Peter Cherif and Mohamed El-Ayouni, jihadists, as well as the Clain brothers, reports Le Parisien.

Noam Anouar’s mission was to monitor the most extreme fringe of Islam between 2008 and 2016. The accomplishment of his task was not easy, however. Between passion and pain, this cop says he was "offended and assaulted" by his institution.

Since 2015, he has been the subject of an IGPN investigation for disloyalty towards his hierarchy. His hope, he says, is to "wear the uniform" which seemed to him "a great consecration, especially in Seine-Saint-Denis, a territory that is in need of an exemplary police force". Failing that, "I want to serve the people. But I don’t dream of being the Arab at the service of the Beauvau square," he said.