Working for Qatar: Relationship between Chiolo’s wife and the Brotherhood revealed
The French website Valeurs Actuelles revealed that terrorist
Hanan Aboulhana, who was killed during as French police sought to arrest her
and her extremist husband Michael Chiolo in March 2019, had been working for a
Qatari charity facing charges of financing terrorism.
Special forces from the French Interior Ministry conducted a raid to arrest Chiolo, and his wife was shot dead after trying to carry out a terrorist attack at the Condé-sur-Sarthe prison in Orne, northwest France.
Evidence of the relationship with Qatar
According to the French site, the evidence includes e-mails exchanged with Qatari personalities running charitable institutions who in turn praised the performance of Aboulhana, who participated with her husband in the implementation of a terrorist attack by handing him a knife that he used to stab and seriously wound two guards.
The website pointed out that the investigations revealed that Aboulhana had smuggled ceramic knives hidden among her personal belongings while visiting her husband and the knives did not appear in the prison’s metal detectors.
Investigations by French police revealed that Aboulhana lived in Illzach, a suburb of Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin near the Al-Nour Mosque, one of the largest places of worship in France and Europe.
According to the French website, Al-Nour Mosque is subject to "special surveillance" by the intelligence and security services. Aboulhana was an executive fundraising assistant of the Islamic center’s fund, which is run by the Association of Muslims of Alsace (AMAL), a local affiliate of the Union of Islamic Organizations in France (UOIF), which is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Qatar Charity, a partner of the Committee for Charity and Support for the Palestinians (CBSP), which is officially listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, has donated huge financial aid to AMAL, amounting to 26 million euros for the construction of the Al-Nour Mosque, Valeurs Actuelles reported.
Who is Michael Chiolo?
On March 5, French police stormed Condé-sur-Sarthe prison in the northwestern province of Orne after Chiolo attacked and wounded guards with knives while his wife visited him and they shouted “Allahu Akbar (God is Great)” before the pregnant Hanan was killed. French authorities considered the incident terrorism.
Michael Chiolo, 27, had been sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping, murder and torture since 2014. He was convicted the following year for justifying terrorism in the wake of the ISIS-claimed terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
Chiolo committed a horrific crime in France in 2012, when he and his associates killed Roger Tarall, 89, a Holocaust survivor, while robbing him, strangling him to death and stealing all his medals and 300 euros, even though he did not exceed twenty years of age at the time.
Chiolo converted to Islam in 2010 and became close to Islamist militants following his imprisonment after Roger Tarall's murder.
During his incarceration, Chiolo became a friend of Cheriff Chekatt, who carried out the Strasbourg attack in France in December 2018. Together they spent 175 days in jail and continued contact by mail, according to France Info.
