French Students Recognize ISIL Child Executioner as Their former Classmate

French Students Recognize ISIL Child Executioner as Their former Classmate. (SP).

French students have reportedly recognized their classmate who is thought to have killed an Arab Israeli man in a video released by the Islamic State earlier this week.

Middle-school students from the French city of Toulouse say that they recognized their classmate in a gruesome video of a child executing an Arab Israeli man that was released by the Islamic State earlier this week, sources said.

"Concerning the formal identification of this person, I cannot tell you anything. Children from Vauquelin College have recognized one of their classmates, but we must remain cautious," Jacques Caillaut, the schools inspector in the Haute-Garonne district in southern France, told reporters.

According to the inspector, students at the Vauquelin secondary school would have known the boy when he was still in primary school in Toulouse.

"There is a child who has not been enrolled at the Vergers (primary) school since March 14, 2014, but I do not have any other details," Caillaut said.

Sources familiar with the case have said the boy may be 31-year-old Essid's stepson.

French officials have, meanwhile, opened a formal investigation into the video, which features a boy, who appears to be no more than 12, shooting a hostage in the forehead using a pistol.

Half-brother of Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah appears in execution video of a Israeli hostage.

Half-brother of Toulouse killer Merah identified in execution video of a Israeli hostage by Daesh.(FR3).

The half-brother of Mohamed Merah , Sabri Essid , appears on an execution video of an Arab Israeli hostage in Syria, posted Tuesday by the organization Islamic state, according to the RFI journalist David Thomson, a specialist in French jihadists and the French researcher Romain Caillet.

The bearded man appears there, alongside a child who fires a bullet in the head hostage.

Sabri Essid disappeared for a year from radar screens of French. This Toulouse, son of the second husband's mother Mohamed Merah married religiously, is a relative of the killer to the scooter . It is he who has organized the funeral of Merah in Toulouse, end of March 2012.

In this video, authentication, man speaks in French with a southwestern accent, claiming the death of the hostage, "suspected" by the Islamic State of being an agent of the Israeli Mossad.

He was known as a figure of Salafism in Toulouse, close to the group of Artigat (Ariège) and "guru" Olivier Corel. He was sentenced in 2009 to 4 years in prison for trying to reach Iraq via Syria. Since then, he was monitored by the Directorate General of Internal Security (RPS), which clearly had lost track of him for a year, when he again joined Syria with his family.

But monitoring of the Clan Merah-Essid goes back much earlier, as France 3 Sud had revealed in March 2013 . In 2006, the intelligence services of the notes first identify the older brother of Merah, Abdelkader, as close to the Salafist cell Essid. Hmmmm........On March 19, 2012 the French-Algerian Mohamed Merah shot and killed three Jewish children and the father of two of them at the entrance to the Ohr Torah school in Toulouse. Read the full story here.

@MFS001 @EjmAlrai video released 3 yrs exactly after Toulouse attack on Jewish school https://t.co/DVzkfw9JdS
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#Israel/i Mohamed travelled to #IS land via #Turkey join November when he was arrested in #Syria. pic.twitter.com/413y7FsqX6
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Suspected Belgian - Algerian terrorist shot dead on the A8 Motorway in Belgium.

Suspected Belgian - Algerian terrorist shot dead on the A8 Motorway in Belgium.(BE). A 39-year-old terrorist suspect from Algeria succumbed during a shooting after a police intervention in the area of Ath, in Hainaut Province in Wallonia. During a house search conducted at the home of the man, police discovered weapons and ammunition.

Police wanted to arrest the man but this attempt ended up in a shooting in which the terrorist suspect was killed. The incident happened yesterday afternoon on the A8 Motorway linking Doornik (Tournai) to Brussels. The road was closed for all traffic, which led to serious traffic congestion.

The man was suspected of being a member of a terrorist organisation. Police next searched his house in Anderlecht and discovered explosives, weapons and ammunition, together with bullet-proof vests and night glasses.

The French judicial authorities had informed their Belgian colleagues about his possible terrorist links last year. However, the man was a suspect in Belgium as well, as he was linked to a violent armed robbery in the Restaurant "De Pajot" in Anderlecht on 21 March.Hmmmm......The name Abdelkader Merah brother of Mohammed merah the Toulouse shooter comes to mind. Read the full story here.

Related? How did Mohammed Merah become a jihadist? A senior Belgian counter terrorism official has told CNN that Abdelkader Merah first came to their notice during a joint investigation in 2008 with French police into a Brussels, Belgium-based jihadist recruitment network. The network was sending Belgian and French militants to Cairo en route to join militants in Iraq -- and may also have connected Europeans to jihadist groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.

Update : HT: The Jawa Report.

The name of the 'terrorist' is  Hakim Benladghem, Slideshow of weapons seized.