He was heard at length by an examining magistrate in Paris. After two years in the Iraqi-Syrian zone, the French national was captured in early 2017 while trying to flee Syria. Brought back to France in September of the same year, he was indicted on charges of a criminal conspiracy.
The Clain Brothers claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. “The Clain family is aware of everything, they are close to scientists, media and officials,” Geffroy revealed. He knew leader Jean-Michel Clain, also known as Abu Othman, during his time in Raqqa intimately.
“Othman said to me that in effort to avoid everybody’s arrest, they targeted Zaventem’s airport in Brussels, but the original target was a French nuclear power plant. They planned to drive to the plants and blow up their cars”, Jonathan revealed.
His statements have earned him a “fatwa with the official stamp of [ISIS leader] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi”.
As revealed by Le Monde on June 26, the French national would pilot a project to send child soldiers to hit Europe.
In his comments, which L’Express was able to consult, there is talk of Kalashnikovs buried in Toulouse by two men who left to join the jihad and were imprisoned on their return to France. “I do not have any more information about the localization, I tell myself that if they buried this Kalashnikov [in his declarations, he alternates the singular and the plural, Ed], it is that they had perhaps planned to do something, but without knowing more “, said Geffroy.
Othman “has an important position in Daesh [ISIS]. He was in the field of information transmission of the Islamic State and he was in contact with Ajna, the highest authority of the Islamic State,” he says. “Jean-Michel left for a month to do a training on explosives in Iraq in 2015. He sought a specialty, because when we have no specialty, we go to the front line.”