AN ENDURING THREAT: EUROPE’S ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORKS THEN AND NOW 347 Belkaid was killed. Ayari, Belkaid and Abdeslam are believed to have been planning a shooting 348 attack to accompany the Brussels attacks]. HASNA AITBOULAHCEN: 26-year-old Aitboulahcen died alongside her cousin Abdelhamid 349 Abaaoud and Chakib Akrouh during the raid in Saint Denis. She was also in contact with Mohammed 350 Belkaid – the two had been in contact by telephone and he had wired money to her account using a 351 352 fake ID. She also allegedly had contact with a man identified as Abdoullah C after the Paris attacks. 353 Aitboulahcen was also under surveillance in a narcotics operation. MOHAMED AMRI and HAMZA ATTOU: Amri and Attou were charged in November 2015 for 354 participation in terrorist activity, after they were seen and videoed driving Abdeslam from France to 355 356 Belgium after the attacks. Attou was extradited to France on 29 June 2016. 357 LAZEZ ABRAIMI: A 39-year-old Moroccan from Brussels, Lazez allegedly drove Salah Abdeslam 358 across Brussels after the Paris attacks. Two handguns were discovered in his car, though he claims these 359 360 were part of a business deal. Lazez is the brother of Noureddine Abraimi. ALI OULKADI: A 31-year-old French national based in Molenbeek who admits to driving Abdeslam 361 around Brussels on 14 November 2015. DJAMAL EDDINE OUALI: Italian police arrested the 40-year-old Algerian in Salerno in connection with the supplying of fake documents to the Brussels and Paris attackers. Specifically, he provided the fake ID for Najim Laachraoui. He is suspected of being part of a criminal network providing fake IDs for 362 illegal immigration. AHMED DAHMANI:26-year-old Dahmani, a Belgian of Moroccan descent, was arrested in Turkey suspected of having scouted out target locations for the Paris attack. He was arrested in a hotel in Antalya, 363 Turkey having travelled from Amsterdam on 14 November 2015. He had previously travelled with 364 Salah Abdeslam in August 2015 from Italy to the Greek port of Patras by boat. ! ! 347 Verberght, M. et al., ‘Salah Abdeslam, Paris Attacks Suspect, Captured in Belgian Raid’, The Wall Street Journal, 18 March 2016. 348 ‘Suspects linked to the Paris, Brussels attacks’, Reuters, 8 April 2016. 349 Allen, P., ‘Female jihadi in Paris attacks died of 'asphyxiation', say prosecutors - as her family sue French police claiming she was murdered by police’, Daily Mail Online, 21 January 2016; and Fenwick, J, ‘Paris suicide bomber who killed Diesel the dog FINALLY named by police’, Express, 15 January 2016. 350 ‘How are the Brussels attackers linked to Paris?’, France 24, 21 April 2016. 351 ‘How are the Brussels attackers linked to Paris?’, France 24, 21 April 2016. 352 ‘Factbox: The hunt for the Paris attackers’, Reuters, 24 December 2015. 353 ‘Is Europe still at threat from Paris-Brussels terror 'supercell'?’, France 24, 11 April 2016. 354 Vinograd, C. et al., ‘Paris Attacks: Salah Abdeslam's Alleged Getaway Drivers Charged’, NBC News, 17 November 2015. 355 Mindock, C, ‘Who Is Hamza Attou, Mohammed Amri? Everything We Know About The Alleged Paris Terrorist Getaway Drivers’, International Business Times, 17 November 2015. 356 ‘Belgium transfers man who picked up Salah Abdeslam after Paris attacks’, Politico, 30 June 2016, available at: http://www.politico.eu/article/hamza-attou- belgium-transfers-man-who-picked-up-salah-abdeslam-after-paris-attacks/, last visited: 9 August 2016. 357 ‘Factbox: The hunt for the Paris attackers’, Reuters, 24 December 2015. 358 ibid. 359 ibid. 360 Dalton, M., ‘Investigators Home In on Scope of Terror Network Behind Brussels, Paris Attacks’, The Wall Street Journal, 4 April 2016. 361 ‘Factbox: The hunt for the Paris attackers’, Reuters, 24 December 2015, and ‘France puts two men under investigation over Paris attacks’, The Guardian, 6 July 2016, available at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/06/france-puts-two-men-under-investigation-over-paris-attacks, last visited: 24 August 2016. 362 ‘Arrested at gunpoint: Armed Italian police swoop on Algerian linked to Paris and Brussels terror attacks’, Daily Mail Online, 27 March 2016, available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3511323/Moment-armed-Italian-police-arrest-Algerian-man-wanted-Belgium-fake-ID-documents-used-Paris- Brussels-terrorists.html, and Ganley, E., ‘Bogus identities with fake IDs vital for terror networks’, Associated Press, 6 April 2016, last visited: 24 August 2016. 363 ‘Factbox: The hunt for the Paris attackers’, Reuters, 24 December 2015. 364 Whitehead, T. and Colin Freeman, ‘Brussels explosions: The Isil terror cell that spread across Europe’, The Telegraph, 22 March 2016; and ‘Paris attacks: Salah Abdeslam’s luck runs out’, BBC News, 19 March 2016. ! ! 32 !
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