Father of Soldier Murdered by Unknown Gunman Files Complaint Against Sarkozy and French Intelligence for Complicity in Toulouse Shootings

Translated by Sott.net
Le Monde
Tue, 08 May 2012 13:13 UTC

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A fellow paratrooper holds up a picture of Abel Chennouf, one of three soldiers shot in cold blood by an unknown assassin in Southwestern France in March.

Albert Chennouf, the father of a soldier killed in March by Mohamed Merah, filed a complaint against the incumbent president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and against the head of the intelligence services, accusing them of failing to prevent the death of his son.

Albert Chennouf filed "a statement to the police" for failure to assist a person in danger, officials said to the prosecution of Nîmes, in the South-Eastern France. The file should be forwarded to Paris. "I want to file a complaint against Nicolas Sarkozy and Bernard Squarcini for failure to assist a person in danger. I hold them responsible for the death of my son," said Mr. Chennouf on the website of the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. Bernard Squarcini is responsible for the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI).

"Inevitably, we ask ourselves questions," added Chennouf. "I think that when you go to Pakistan by making a detour to Israel, it can only be with the blessing of the French secret services. The hypothesis that Merah was eliminated so that he wouldn't talk seems more and more plausible to me (...). Politicians wanted him to die."

Counsel for Mr. Chennouf, Gilbert Collard, confirmed that his client had filed a complaint. "He's in great despair, he pays the price for the drama lived," he said.

Corporal Abel Chennouf, 25, was killed the 15th of March in Montauban by Jihadist Mohamed Merah, who, in less than ten days, coldly killed
one man and three Jewish children, and three young soldiers. Mohamed Merah, who claimed to belong to Al-Qaeda, was killed the 22nd of March when police intervened in his apartment in Toulouse after a thirty-two hour siege.

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Comment: Albert Chennouf knows something is wrong with the official story.

As Joe Quinn wrote shortly after the farcical "siege":

Toulouse Attacks: The Official Story of the Death of Mohamed Merah is a Lie

Clearly Merah was never meant to come out of that apartment alive. Why? Because he would have been able to tell the truth - that he did not shoot those three soldiers or the teacher and children at the Jewish school. Alive, he may have told a story of being contacted by French intelligence while he was in jail and offered a 'deal', whereby, as a Muslim, he would go to Afghanistan 'undercover' and report back to French intelligence on the activities of certain groups. This would have been the process of 'sheep dipping' him, creating a history that could later be used against him. He could have told how a trip to Israel was arranged for him and that he made contact with Israeli intelligence.