Toulouse Gunman - Mohammad Merah was French Intelligence Asset

The case of Mohammed Merah, this young French of Algerian descent who claimed the killing of seven people in Toulouse and Montauban on behalf of Al Qaeda, triggering a war between various secret services.

According to sources of information confided in Il Foglio, the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), the French agency charged with espionage and counter-terrorism outside the borders, would have guaranteed Merah - in his capacity as an informant - access to Israel in September 2010 by a checkpoint at the Jordanian border.

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The French would have stayed there three days in "tourist" before returning to Jordan and then to head to Afghanistan.

Its entry into Israel, covered by the French, had to prove the ability of jihadist network to easily pass the borders with a European passport.