Nantes Islamist Leader Released After Serving Terrorism Sentence

The arrest of Mohamed Achamlane, who lived in a town near Nantes, dates back to July 2015. Then 37 years old, he had been sentenced to 9 years in prison for "criminal conspiracy in connection with a terrorist enterprise and illegal possession of weapons", reports ouest-france.fr which specifies that this sentence was accompanied by a two-thirds security period.

In 2010, wanting to "scar France", in his own words, he founded the Forsane Alizza group (the knights of pride). His mission: to fight against Islamophobia. But also, it is a question of "scarring" France, according to the words of Mohamed. While claiming an uninhibited Islamism, the group was dissolved in 2012 by the Minister of the Interior, Claude Guéant, under the law of January 10, 1936 on combat groups and private militias.

At the time of his arrest, the police had discovered at his home three demilitarized Kalashnikov assault rifles that could be put back into working order. But also, a list of targets, including personalities from the far right as well as Jewish businesses in Paris and the inner suburbs, including Hyper Cacher, details the same source.

To this is added another very compromising discovery made by the police about "the man who wanted to scar France". Indeed, the police discovered that Mohamed Achamlane was also in contact with the woman from Lorient, Émilie König. The latter is on the black list of the 10 most wanted terrorists by the United States, notes the same media, which specifies that she had also been convicted six times, in particular for violence with a weapon, public insults and incitement to racial discrimination.