Moroccan Abou Abderahman al Maghrebi, aka Ali Maychou, considered the number two leader and religious leader of the Islamist and Muslim Support Group (GSIM), a jihadist organization linked to Al Qaeda, was killed by French forces in Mali early October, told AFP Tuesday the French Minister of Armies, Florence Parly.
The jihadist was killed "on the night of 8 to 9 October" on Malian soil in coordination with Malian forces and American support, she said in the plane that brought her back from a tour in several countries of the Sahel region, where some 4,500 French soldiers are deployed as part of the anti-Jihadist operation Barkhane.