Christian Ganczarski

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Christian Ganczarski (born 1966) is a German citizen of Polish ancestry who converted to Islam. He was born in Gliwice, Silesia, Poland.

Nicolas Sarkozy, then French Interior Minister, alleged Ganczarski was a top al Qaeda leader.[1] The Alliance Base captured Ganczarski at Charles de Gaulle Airport.[2]

Early on the morning of April 11, 2002 Niser bin Muhammad Nasar Nawar and a colleague drove a truck loaded with natural gas canisters behind a German tourist bus near the El Ghriba synagogue on Djerba island, Tunisia.[3] Nawar then used a cell phone belonging to his brother to phone Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ganczarski.[4] After his colleague fled the scene on foot, Nawar detonated the explosives.[3]

In February 2009, a French court sentenced Ganczarski to 18 years in prison for the bombing.[5]

References

  1. However, a judicial source close to the investigation told Reuters news agency that French prosecutors had no evidence of any close link between Ganczarski and bin Laden; see Deutsche Welle report, French Allege Detained German Is Top Al Qaeda Leader
  2. BBC: France arrests al-Qaeda suspects
  3. 3.0 3.1 Hedges, Chris. New York Times, Tunisian killed in Synagogue blast was unlikely convert to militancy, June 9, 2002
  4. BBC, Two jailed over Tunisia bombing, February 5, 2009
  5. Michel Moutot: Al Qaeda militant found guilty for Tunisian synagogue attack - Expatica, 06/02/2009

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