Gang de Roubaix
| Gang de Roubaix | |
|---|---|
| Leader(s) | Christophe Caze |
| Dates of operation | January 27, 1996-March 29, 1996 |
| Motives | Destruction of a G7 meeting in Lille |
| Active region(s) |
 France
|
| Ideology | Al-Qaeda |
| Major actions | robberies |
| Notable attacks | Missed car Bombing against a Police precinct in Lille, Armored Car Robbery, Murder |
| Status | dismantled |
| Size | 18 terrorists |
| Means of revenue | bank robberies |
Gang de Roubaix was a terrorist cell tied with the Islamist group Al-Qaeda. Its members were suspected of various bloody bank attacks, murder and a missed car bombing attack against a G7 Finance ministers meeting in Lille.
Their violent story ended with a R.A.I.D. assault against their Roubaix HQ in 1996.
In 1992, a Civil war began in Bosnia and Herzegovina between three ethnic groups: The Bosnian Serbs, supported by Serbia, the Bosnian Croats supported by Croatia and Bosnian Muslims. Bosnian Muslims received some international support (financial and military) from Muslim countries.
A lot of foreigners arrived in the country. Among them, Christophe Caze, a French medicine student, began taking care of the multiple casualties in Zenica, considered as one of the primary radical areas. Soon afterwards, he converted to Islam and radicalized slowly. During his stay in Zenica, he made friends with Fateh Kamel, Mohammed Omary and Lionel Dumont, 3 Mudjahedins.
In 1995, the Bosnian War ended with the Dayton Agreement. All the Mudjahedins, including Caze who joined them, were requested to leave Bosnia. Then Kamel, who was working for the GIA, convinced Caze and Dumont, who was an idealist, to commit terrorist attacks in their hometown country because of the diplomatic relationships between France and Algeria.
Kamel organized counterfeited administrative documents in his home country of Canada to allow his associates to escape safely after the attacks. Meanwhile, Caze and Dumont began recruiting in Roubaix, France and went to Bosnia in order to buy heavy weaponry thanks to the financial help of a radical imam in London.
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