Jérémie Louis-Sidney

Jérémie Louis-Sidney (Melun, 24 January 1979 — Strasbourg, 6 October 2012 ) was a French rapper and Islamist militant.

Biography The only son of seven siblings, Louis-Sidney suffered from a difficulties at school and quickly fell in juvenile delinquency, leading to his placement in a foster care family, and later in a semi-closed establishment. He escaped the facility at the age of 17 and converted to Islam around this point. Around the same time, police reported that Louis-Sidney met regularly with a group of associates who would end up being suspected in terrorist affairs. Religiously married to two women,

Louis-Sidney came to the attention of the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence in spring 2012.

On 6 October 2012, the French police anti-terrorist unit RAID launched a France-wide arrest against the various elements of Louis-Sidney's group, known as the "Cannes-Torcy cell". At 6 in the morning, they broke in his Strasbourg apartment; Louis-Sidney turned out to be armed with a 357-calibre Smith & Wesson revolver and opened fire, wounding one of the officers in the thorax. Louis-Sidney was killed by the return fire of the police after firing all six shots in his weapon.

The police reported finding a testament tape where Louis-Sidney claimed to wish to "die a martyr". Paris prosecutor François Molins cited Louis-Sidney as an example of "rapid radicalisation".

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