(Radio France) If there is no doubt about the central part played in the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks by Oussama Atar, the role of his brother, Yassine, remains much less clear. On Friday, a Belgian police officer presented as much evidence against Yassine Atar as she and her colleagues have been able to collect.
Nothing about the case of Yassine Atar is simple.
He claims to have abandoned all contact with his brother, Oussama, more than two decades ago. Yet analysis of phone and computer accounts suggest that the pair remained in touch, notably through coded SMS messages passed on by their sister Iman.
When Oussama Atar was imprisoned by the Americans in Iraq for his part in the Islamist war against the US invaders, it was Yassine who travelled to Baghdad in an unsuccessful effort to visit him.
