AYOUB Posted March 30, 2012 Mohammed Merah may have been a protected asset of French Intelligence, an Italian newspaper reported. Mohammed Merah, the gunman who killed seven people including three Jewish children, may have been a protected asset of French Intelligence, Il Foglio, an Italian newspaper reported today, raising further questions about whether authorities may have had a chance to prevent the attacks. The 23-year-old, who was a French citizen of Algerian origin, also killed three Muslim soldiers, before being killed at the end of a 32-hour standoff in an apartment in Toulouse. Now reports have emerged that Merah had traveled to Afghanistan and Israel in 2010 and had been interviewed by France's domestic intelligence Agency, Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI). According to Le Monde, Bernard Squaricini, head of DCRI, was quoted saying that Merah asked for a local DCRI agent by name during the standoff. According to Squarcini, Merah shocked the agent by saying: "Anyway, I was going to call you to say I had some tip-offs for you, but actually I was going to [kill] you." MSNBC quoted Yves Bonnet, a former head of an intelligence agency that was merged with DCRI in 2008, as saying that having a contact at the DCRI is reason for suspicion. More from GlobalPost: Algeria and Toulouse mayor reject burial of gunman Mohammed Merah "This is not trivial," Bonnet said. "I don't know how far his relationship, or collaboration, with the service went but it is a question worth raising." According to Il Foglio, Merah's trip to Israel and Afghanistan was made with the knowledge of the French foreign secret service, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure. Full article... http://mobile.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/france/120329/mohammed-merah-toulouse-shooter-may-have-been-french-spy- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rudy-Diiriye Posted March 30, 2012 That explains how he could afford the Bimmer that hes making donuts with it!! no wonder. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AYOUB Posted March 30, 2012 ^ It sounded fishy the minute I heard he was using an Uzi. Interesting times... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
N.O.R.F Posted March 30, 2012 How could he get hold of an Uzi, use it, record what he did and evade capture for a week in a small town? Let the conspiracies begin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
