an arrest warrant against the Clain brothers

The anti-terrorist investigating judges charged with investigating attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis issued at the end of June arrest warrants against the Clain brothers, whose voices were quickly identified at the time in the claim of the group Islamic State (EI, Daesh ), was informed Monday of a lawyer of civil parties.

This announcement was made by the magistrates Monday during a meeting of information of the survivors and relatives of victims of the attacks perpetrated against terraces and the Bataclan Hall in Paris and the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, which left 130 dead in total.

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The issuance of these international arrest warrants means that the judges request their hearing, with a view to indicting them in the case file. During this meeting, which was held at the Ecole Militaire in Paris, the judges also indicated that they hoped to complete the investigation in September 2019, reported the lawyer of the French Association of Victims of Terrorism (AFVT), Antoine Casubolo Ferro.

Fabien Clain was quickly identified as the voice of the Daesh sound message broadcast in the aftermath of the attacks perpetrated by three commandos of men returned from Syria. His brother Jean-Michel was identified in the Anasheeds – religious songs – of the recording. Veterans of jihad, they are in the sights of anti-terrorist services for years but are still probably in Syria, according to investigators.

According to Mr. Casubolo Ferro, the investigating judges decided to issue these international arrest warrants after badyzing the claim, which also referred to an attack in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. However, the latter did not take place, which leads the magistrates to think that the Clain brothers were aware of the preparations for the attacks.

"They are probably somewhere"

"For us civil parties, this is good news," said the lawyer, who described Monday's meeting as "very interesting." "A priori the Clain brothers are not dead and have not been arrested, they are probably somewhere in Syria," he added, noting that during the meeting, civil parties wondered how they were able to leave the French territory despite their surveillance by the intelligence services.

At the end of May, a source familiar with the case had stated that the Clain brothers were still alive and did not express their desire to return to Turkey or France. . Converted to Islam, Fabien Clain, who attended the Mohamed brothers – the author of the killings in Toulouse in 2012 – and Abdelkader Merah in the Toulouse region, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2009 at the trial of a drug industry. of jihadists to Iraq, the so-called Artigat sector.

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In March Judge Christophe Teissier, who is leading this sprawling investigation, refused a request for an act from the Life For Paris Victims Association, which called for the hearing of the Clain brothers and the issuing of arrest warrants, in light of their possible "leading role" in the preparations for the Paris attacks.

In his response, the judge explained that "investigations" were "in progress" to "accurately determine the precise role that each of them could have," according to a source close to the file. In total, twelve men are prosecuted in the case heard in Paris and at least five others, whose Clain brothers are the subject of an arrest warrant.