Who Organised the Paris Attacks?

According to the official version, the attacks of January and November 2015 in Paris were sponsored by Al-Qaïda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP) —for the execution of the editors of Charlie-Hebdo— and by Daesh for all the others. The authorities have admitted that the Charlie-Hebdo attack was coordinated with the attack against the supermarket at the Porte de Vincennes, although, according to them, AQAP and Daesh are enemies. They also admitted that doubt persists concerning the claim that Amedy Coulibaly was a member of Daesh.

Reuters revealed that the weapons used in the attacks came from the factory of Crvena Zastava, situated in Kragujevac (Serbia) [1]. Both Associated Press and the Palm Beach Post believed that one of the Serbian pistols had been transported by Century International Arms, a Florida firm linked to the CIA [2], although the Press Agency – but not the Post – has since retracted the claim [3].

Now the revelations of the Slobodna Dalmacija make sense. In January 2015, when he was jailed for « arms trafficking », Claude Hermant described himself to the committing magistrate as an « informer » for the Customs and the Gendarmerie. When asked by the magistrate for details of the weapons he had sold, he played the Secret-Défense card. The Advisory Committee for Secret-Défense, and then the Minister for the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, opted in his favour [9].

In summary, Mr. Hermant belonged to a structure which, under cover of the security unit for the Front National, was unofficially charged by the Élysée with secret missions overseas. Today he is paid for freelance work by the Customs and the Gendarmerie, still without any official status. According to Slobodna Dalmacija, he bought decommissioned weapons in Serbia and recommissioned them himself, and that these were the weapons used in the attacks of January and November. The Croatian daily also spoke of the results of a microscope analysis of a firearm which no-one has so far mentioned. Mr. Hermant also allegedly sold weapons to Islamists in Brussels. His trafic, despite being illegal, is covered by the Secret-Défense.

Let us mention that according to the US Press agency McClatchy, the Kouachi brothers, the killers of Charlie-Hebdo, were linked to the French secret services [10]. Finally, let us also note that Claude Hermant was imprisoned on the decision of judges from Lille, Stanislas Sandraps and Richard Foltzer, who were investigating his arms trafficking, and not by the Parisian judges who were investigating the attacks, Christophe Tessier, Nathalie Poux et Laurence Le Vert. Madame Le Vert is incidentally the cousin of Gérard Le Vert, mentioned above, Claude Hermant’s ex-boss in the DPS.

In conclusion, either Mr. Hermant was working on infiltrating the terrorist cells who perpetrated the attacks, without their action having been prevented, or else – and this is less probable – his current superiors, probably in the Élysée, themselves participated in the organisation of the attacks. But it still has to be determined why, and in whose name, Claude Hernant’s superiors acted as they did.

Notes

[1] “Some guns used in Paris attacks produced in ex-Yugoslavia’s arsenal”, Aleksandar Vasovic, Reuters, November 28, 2015.

[2] “Dealer: Gun linked to Paris attack came through Delray firm”, Associated Press, December 10, 2015. «Dealer: Gun linked to Paris attack came through Delray firm», Pat Beall, John Pacenti & Mike Stucka, Palm Beach Post, December 10, 2015.

[3] “Correction: Serbia-Paris-Guns story”, Jovana Gec & Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press, December 18, 2015.

[4] «Oružje za Charlie Hebdo prodao Hrvatski branitelj», Marijo Kavain, Slobodna Dalmacija, 11 janvier 2016. Version française : « Les armes pour Charlie-Hebdo ont été vendues par un ex-combattant volontaire croate », Traduction Svetlana Maksovic, Réseau Voltaire, 14 janvier 2016.

[5] You will find here extracts from the report presented by the Réseau Voltaire to the parliamentarians, here the text of the parliamentary hearings, and here the text of the parliamentary report. In French.

[6] La Françafrique, le plus long scandale de la République, de François-Xavier Verschave (Stock, 1998).

[7] «Un ancien du DPS révèle à “Libération” les activités de déstabilisation et d’infiltration menées en France et en Afrique», par Renaud Dely et Karl Laske, Libération, 6 juin 2001.

[8] « Quand le stay-behind portait De Gaulle au pouvoir », par Thierry Meyssan, Réseau Voltaire, 27 août 2001.

[9] « Les armes de Charlie-Hebdo couvertes par le Secret-Défense », Réseau Voltaire, 17 septembre 2015.

[10] “According to McClatchy, Mohammed Mehra and the Kouachi brothers could be linked to the French secret services”, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 24 January 2015.

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