The text of claiming the attacks of 13 November in Paris on behalf of the Islamic State was read in a recording posted on the Internet by the French jihadist Fabien Clain, said Tuesday the investigation sources close friends.
Clain, 35, was close to Mohamed Merah, French militant killed in 2012 after killing three French soldiers and three students of a Jewish school in Toulouse, in southern France.
After carefully analyzing the recording of the French text of five and a half minutes, released the day after the attacks that left at least 129 dead, intelligence services concluded that it is Clain, an Islamist known French radicalized networks, sentenced in July 2009 to five years in prison, after which he moved to Syria.
Fabien Clain and his brother Jean-Michel, who grew up in Toulouse, are Muslim converts who were radicalized in the early 2000s Both had then approached an Islamic community led by a Syrian-born Frenchman, Olivier Corel greater than and whom they regarded as a spiritual guide.
Fabien Clain, alias Omar, is considered one of the organizers of an Islamist network sending fighters to Iraq to fight the US military. Court in January 2009, was sentenced to five years in prison.
During his detention, the prison service had intercepted a mail addressed to Mohamed Merah, whom he had met several years earlier.
After his release, Fabien Clain moved to Syria along with several members of the radical circles of Toulouse, where he joined the ranks of EI.
From there he came into contact with aspiring jihadists in France and is regarded as one of the instigators of abortive attack in April against a church in Villejuif in the southeast of Paris by the Algerian Sid Ahmed Ghlam.