The Black Box… Who is Jonathan Jeffrey, the French ISIS terrorist?
Despite defeating the terrorist group ISIS in Syria and Iraq since 2014 under the leadership of the international coalition and Iraqi and Syrian forces, the organization continues its terrorist activities in many Arab and Western countries to spread terror and destabilize security.
Since the terror group’s territorial gains in Iraq and Syria were all taken, thanks to these international efforts, its capabilities to plan attacks, attract foreign fighters, and obtain financing have decreased significantly, but they continue.
Who is Jonathan Jeffrey the French ISIS?
A French extremist from Toulouse, southern France, Jonathan Jeffrey joined the terror group ISIS in Syria in 2015, having converted to Islam in 2007 and soon becoming radicalized in Syria.
He was part of the terrorist group’s Anwar al-Awlaki brigade in the Levant, which included many foreign terrorists.
In Ramadi, Iraq, Jonathan participated in the Tariq bin Ziyad Brigade, formed by Abdul Ilah Himmiche (a French ISIS fighter known as Abu Sulayman al-Fri) and including the Bataclan Hall attackers.
The so-called black box of ISIS, after revealing the group’s plans to carry out operations within Europe, to terrorize rural France and target French nuclear power plants, also recognized the many French who joined ISIS.
During his interrogation, Jeffrey also confessed that he was planning to send the children of the so-called “Cubs of the Caliphate” to Europe “to carry out suicide operations there.”
French courts try terrorism
The French Criminal Court is to try a young French man on charges of joining the Islamic State (IS) in Syria in 2015, accompanied by his Moroccan wife and their infant son, and on charges of participating in a criminal terrorist organization.
Jonathan Jeffrey and Latifa Shadley face thirty years of criminal detention, while Denise B. faces ten years in prison.
