William Molinié 07:37, October 05, 2022
Six women from the entourage of Mohamed Merah's family were arrested by investigators from the anti-terrorist sub-directorate in Toulouse and Albi on Tuesday.
They are suspected of having left between 2013 and 2014 for Syria with their children.
Ten years after the disappearance of the terrorist, the role of the women around him in his passage to the act remains unclear.
This is information that Europe 1 revealed on Tuesday.
Nearly six women from the entourage of terrorist Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people including three children, were arrested by investigators from the anti-terrorist sub-directorate in Toulouse and Albi.
The Merah affair actually began in the mid-2000s. The Albigensian Thomas Barnouin or the Toulousain Sabri Essid, originally from the city of Izards, recruited young people at the time to send them to Iraq.
Of this Toulouse nebula, many died, imprisoned in Syria or behind bars in France.
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Under the radar
But they remain women, rarely worried because they have long been considered secondary roles in anti-terrorist investigations.
Although they did not participate directly in Mohamed Merah's acting out, the two trials of Abdelkader Merah, the terrorist's brother, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison, two-thirds of which were suspended, show that they promotes a radical Islam within the clan.
According to our information, these six women proved to be seasoned during the spinning of the investigators, particularly vigilant in their movements and cautious on the telephone.
A sign that ten years after the Merah affair, they were still trying to stay under the radar.