Reports suggest that the Toulouse shooter was an agent of French intelligence
Press reports and comments from senior intelligence officials suggest that Mohamed Mera, the alleged shooter who killed seven people, including three children from a Jewish school, was an agent of French intelligence during a nine-day indiscriminate shooting in Toulouse.
These revelations raise questions about the inability of the French intelligence to stop the Measure and whether this inability was dictated by political considerations. The investigation against Mer was led by the Central Office of Internal Security (TSUVB), which is headed by Bernard Scarsini - a close ally of the current president, Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy, who had previously lagged far behind the candidate of the Socialist Party (SP), Francois Hollande before the presidential election next month, took advantage of the extensive media coverage after the attacks and is now catching up with Hollande according to polls.
In an interview for Le Monde, 23 in March, Scarsini confirmed that Mer had traveled extensively in the Middle East, although his legal earnings were approximately at the minimum wage: "He visited his brother in Cairo after traveling around the Middle East, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and even Israel. ... Then he went to Afghanistan through Tajikistan. He chose unusual routes and did not attract our attention, as well as the attention of the French, American or local intelligence services. "
Scarsini clearly sought to maintain a formal explanation for Mera's ability to elude the police: he was an undetectable "self-radicalized lone wolf." This story collapsing due to revelations that the French intelligence services were apparently in close contact with Mera, trying to turn him into an informant within the Islamist networks.
Yesterday, the magazine Les Inrockuptibles drew attention to Italian media reports that Mera worked for the main French intelligence service, the General Directorate of External Security (GUVB). He cited a message from the newspaper Il Foglio: "According to intelligence sources who spoke to Il Foglio, the General Directorate of External Security received permission for him to travel to Israel in 2010 year, presenting him as an informant passing through a border post with Jordan. .. His trip to Israel under the guise of the French had to prove to the jihadist network that he could cross the border with a European passport. "
When Les Inrockuptibles contacted GUVB, the Office refused to confirm or deny the history of Il Foglio magazine: "The GUVB does not discuss its sources or its operations, real or imagined."
Commenting yesterday for the publication La Dépéche du Midi, Yves Bonnet - the former head of the Territorial Security Directorate (counterintelligence services, UBT), which is now absorbed by the TSUVB - also wondered whether the Measure was an agent for TSUVB.
Bonnet said: “Nevertheless, it is surprising that he was known to the Central Bank of Ukraine Internal Affairs, not only because he was an Islamist, but also because he had a correspondent in the internal intelligence service. To have a correspondent is unusual. “Ordinary. Call him a correspondent or call him a curator ... I don't know how far his relationship or cooperation with the service has gone, but this raises questions."
Scarsini denied yesterday that Meru was "an informant for the TSUVB or any other French or foreign service." However, his interview for "Le Monde" suggests that Mera was an informant.
According to Skarsini’s own admission, Merah visited the Central Bank for Internal Affairs several times after his visits to Afghanistan and Pakistan - in October and November of 2011 - to discuss what he saw. Scarsini called it "an administrative interview without coercion, since we were not in a judicial institution." Thus, the Measure independently provided the Central Bank of Ukraine with information that the Office wanted to know; that is, he acted as an informant, officially or unofficially.
These revelations make even more inexplicable the inability of officials to identify and stop the Measure. They also raise the question of whether the French intelligence officers were behind the very insane delays in the shooting investigation.
Although the shooting took place on 11, 15 and 19 in March, Mer came under suspicion only on 20 in March - after the police compared the final list of Islamists in the Toulouse area with a list of the IP addresses of computers that viewed the victim of the murder 11 March.
Journalist Didier Hassou told Les Inrockuptibles that the police received a list of 576 IP addresses “when the message appeared about the killing of the first soldier” - that is, March 11. However, according to Jean-Marcou Manak, an IT technician, IP addresses were sent to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for identification only five days later, March 16. These companies gave the answer the next day.
This five-day delay is very unusual, as Manak notes: “Police sources told me that such operations [to obtain personal data from an ISP] take only a few minutes. Another source, among those who usually respond to such legal inquiries, said that it takes them 'maximum 48 hours'. "
Another blow to the official presentation of the story of Mer as a "lone wolf" was the video of the killings made by the shooter, which the Al-Jazeera TV channel received on Monday evening in an envelope marked with the medium 21 of March. However, that day, Mohamed Merah was hiding in his apartment, besieged by the police, who also detained his brother, Abdelkader. It is unclear who sent the video, which was heavily edited to change voices - which makes it possible for Mer’s accomplices to exist in these murders.
French officials reacted sharply to news about the video. Sarkozy appealed to all the TV channels that received the video so that they did not show it, while Hollande warned that Al-Jazeera could lose broadcasting rights in France if it publishes the video.
Hollande’s stance on the Toulouse video reflects the surrender of the bourgeois “left” parties in France before the hysteria of “maintaining law and order” after these tragic events. No one demanded an investigation into the role of the special services in these killings, although it smells like an operation involving state bodies. Also, neither the French Communist Party, nor the New Anti-Capitalist Party, nor the Socialist Party indicated that the Sarkozy administration, which had benefited from this electoral crime, faces a legitimate suspicion that it may be involved in this.
This reflects the degradation of the entire dominant political class. After they supported imperialist wars in Muslim countries and cuts in social spending in France — while Social Democratic officials in Greece pushed even more destructive cuts demanded by the European Union — the “left” parties now rely on chauvinistic calls for anti-Muslim patriotism. This makes them submissive to the secret services and the Sarkozy administration’s attempt to turn the Toulouse killings into a basis for what looks like a political coup.
- “World Socialist Web Site”, USA - 28 March, 2012. "Report
- http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/toul-m28.shtml
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