Christophe Caze

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Christophe Caze
Born October 22, 1969
Died March 29, 1996
Detained at Guantanamo Bay camp

Christophe Caze (October 22, 1969 – March 29, 1996), a former medical student in France, was one of France's foremost terrorists.

While studying medicine he converted to Islam and was drawn to Islamic extremist movements. [1] [2]

He traveled to Bosnia in 1992 to practise medicine, and worked in a Zenica hospital.[3]

Returning to France, he led a group of mostly Algerian terrorists, based in Roubaix, France on a spree of robbing banks, armoured cars and shops - before they were raided at their apartment after police discovered a bomb inside a Peugeot three blocks from the 1996 G7 meeting. Although Caze escaped the initial raid, he was shot trying to ram a police checkpoint the following day, in Belgium.

His address book was found to contain the contact information for Fateh Kamel, an Algerian living in Canada suspected of militant ties.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Christophe Caze: de l’islamisme radical au grand banditisme". Le Temps. 2007-01-16. Retrieved 2012-02-09. 
  2. ↑ "L'enfant du Nord mort en barbuConverti à l'islam, Christophe Cazé a été tué après l'assaut de Roubaix". Libération. 1996-04-04. Retrieved 2012-02-09. 
  3. ↑ Kohlmann, Evan. "Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe", p. 189
  4. ↑ Deliso, Christopher. "The Coming Balkan Caliphate", p. 11
  5. ↑ (French)

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