LCI INFO - Attacks in the Aude: The chilling words of Radouane Lakdim's girlfriend

  SURVEY - While investigations continue to determine whether Radouane Lakdim was able to benefit from complicities, we know a little more about the profile of his 18-year-old girlfriend arrested a few hours after the deadly attacks on Trèbes and Carcassonne. According to our information, this is what she said during her detention. His words are chilling.

March 26, 2018 12:24 - LCI writing
The information was confirmed this Monday morning: the girlfriend of the jihadist assailant Radouane Lakdim, placed in custody Friday after the attacks that killed four people in the Aude, is known police service for radicalization. The 18-year-old is "stuck S" (for "State Security") since 2017, said a source close to the investigation to LCI. She is also known to the police for common law matters.

According to our information, she was followed by the DGSI for its Islamist profile, very active on social networks: "She says she is sympathetic E.I on Facebook". However, it was not considered to represent an imminent and direct threat. His report is located in the "low end of the spectrum" of 12,000 cards S issued for radical Islam today.

She regrets that there were no more deaths

While claiming to have known nothing of Lakdim's plans ("he would have cut off the bridges with her a few weeks ago"), this convert nevertheless recounted during her detention an armed pro-jihad. She also said she condoned the attacks in France, a country she calls "disbeliever", and that it considers normal that Daech revenge his "brothers" killed by the French army in Syria or Iraq. According to our information, she said she regretted that there were no more deaths during Friday's attacks. Finally, she told the investigators that had she been aware of plans for her boyfriend's attacks, she would not have reported it.

At the same time, a 17-year-old who was reportedly a friend of Radouane Lakdim, and living in the same working-class neighborhood, was also taken into custody for criminal criminal conspiracy, according to a source close to the investigation, stating that the latter, just like the assailant's girlfriend, answered the questions of the investigators.

Their custody was extended. In counter-terrorism investigations, they can be up to 96 hours, and up to 144 hours in exceptional cases. The investigators seek to determine the reasons for the jihadist assailant's action and to find possible complicities.

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