BAMAKO (AFP) | © AFP The man suspected of committing an attack outside the embassy of France in Mali, 5 January 2010 in Bamako |
A 24 year old Tunisian who launched January 5 an explosive device against the Embassy of France in Bamako, leaving two slightly injured, escaped the prison Monday in Mali where he was has since learned the AFP security sources in Mali.
The circumstances of the escape were not specified, "but more persons were arrested to keep him," said one of these sources to the Malian Ministry of Interior.
The Tunisian Simoun Bashir, who claimed a member of al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), was held in an undisclosed location.
January 5 at night, equipped with an automatic pistol, a bomb and a grenade, he managed to detonate the device or the grenade, according to testimony divergent at the time.
The attack outside the embassy of France located in the heart of Bamako, was unprepared, which seemed to indicate that the man was arrested shortly after, had acted alone, according to investigators. Nor has AQIM claimed responsibility.
One investigator had said that Bashir had Simoun, "in a personal capacity, hatred of France," adding that was a member of a katiba (camp of Islamist fighters) in the Sahel AQIM operates where the organization has pledged allegiance in 2006 to leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
The combination had been made immediately with the suicide bombing in August 2009, a young Mauritanian near the Embassy of France in Nouakchott, claimed by AQIM.
The bomber died in Mauritania was then detonated the explosive belt he was wearing. He was slightly wounded two French gendarmes who were doing their jogging and a bandwidth of Mauritania.
In July 2010, AQIM was designated France as a military target after Franco-Mauritanian waged against a base of the organization in Mali, whose goal was to free French hostage Michel Germaneau, 78 years.
September Islamist fighters had been killed, but the hostage was not released and AQIM had then announced they had killed him.
She still holds four French hostages, kidnapped on September 16, 2010 an extraction of uranium group Areva at Arlit in northern Niger. Three others, one French, a Malagasy and a Togolese, abductees were released Friday.
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