It is considered one of the best analysts of jihadist networks. But on Friday, as a press release, the string BFMTV announced it was ending its collaboration with Romain Caillet, speaking on the air since March. “Following information revealed this week on its route, BFMTV will not intervene Romain Caillet as a consultant for the string”.
The revelations in question? Those published in The Obs item on Wednesday. We learn that the expert part, for several years, of 10,500 stuck “S” by French intelligence for their “affiliation or relationship with the Islamic movement.” There is a dozen years, the consultant did not hesitate to share his sympathies for jihad, according to media supplement the weekly. “I knew there was one [a sheet" S "note], but I did not know it still existed”, said Romain Caillet to Parisien, after this information have been unveiled.
The path of Islam at age 20. Convert to Islam in 1997 when he was 20 years old, Romain Caillet told in 2015 to Libération : “I had Muslim friends their attachment to their religion attracted me but as they were not very religious, I read, I learned, only for two years, until.. to my conversion. ” In the course of the 2000s, the young man officiated on forums under the pseudonym “Colonel Salafi” to defend favorable positions Jihad says L’Observateur .
attendance Clain brothers. in 2005, Romain Caillet leaves to settle in Cairo, Egypt. There, he learned Arabic and took courses in a facility that will be closed at the request of Western, suspecting the place to be a recruitment area for jihad. The researcher living in Nasr City, Cairo neighborhood frequented by extremist circles. According to The Obs , Romain Caillet would have rubbed shoulders with Clain brothers parties in Syria alongside the Islamic state, and which one of the two, Fabien, recorded the audio of the attacks of claim 13 November by the terrorist organization.
“I lived in the 8th district of Cairo, Nasr City, which was like a village where everyone knew each other. I met Jean-Michel Clain but much less Fabien. I have a friend who for 20 years was indeed close to the two brothers, “admitted the researcher on Friday contacted by Le Figaro .
“I’m not for jihad” Placed in custody by the anti-terrorist sub-directorate (SDAT) in January 2008, Romain Caillet explain. ” on jihad, I’m not okay with Clain. Since March 2007, I’m not for jihad because I made the objection to coaching young people to sacrifice to die without having previously acquired the basics of Islam. ” He also will deny his former convictions, declaring: “I hope not to have been the youth recruitment of jihad because I tried to fix my mistakes by posting public repentance..” No charges will be brought against him.
A form “S” still active. But because of this troubled past, Romain Caillet has been, by service french intelligence, a famous record “S”. This, according to The Obs , is still active. The specialist responded Thursday with Paris , saying his record “S” is still relevant because, “once in the database, it is very difficult to come out.”
A renowned expertise. “This is the best connoisseur of the Islamic State”, estimated David Thomson, another prominent specialist in jihadist movements in the portrait that was dedicated to him Libération . At the French Institute for the Near East, in Beirut where he settled in 2010 with his wife and two children, Romain Caillet had launched into a dissertation on “New Muhajirun. The emigration of French Salafists in ‘land of Islam “. Research work abandoned shortly before his expulsion from Lebanon (enough for opaque reasons) in March 2015, had reported Le Monde at the time .
the “geek dijhadisme.” with its “profile picture” Twitter in the guise of Calimero, the “geek jihadism” in the words of Thomson, is present since July 2013 on the social network. The researcher and consultant actively post information, videos and photos related to the Islamic state on its behalf, in which subscribers are more than 33,600 followers.
Number of media do not also hesitate to solicit regularly recognized for his analysis, like BFMTV that he had chosen a few weeks ago to become its expert "on matters of jihadism." A collaboration that will quickly petered out. The chain sorry indeed that "Romain Caillet has not seen fit to specify in the chain a number of important elements of his past, directly related to the issues it was not to broadcast" a-t- she said in a statement.
from the Le Figaro , Romain Caillet said he lived "an intellectual experience." But "never an activist. I never fully adhered to the jihadist current, even if I had sympathy for some of his theses," was it forbidden.
No comments:
Post a Comment