Lionel Dumont, the “jihad robber”, released from prison

IHe turns 51 this year and a terribly loaded past. Raised in Tourcoing in a Catholic family, Lionel Dumont converted to Islam while studying history in Lille. In 1994, after two years in the army, he joined El-Moudjahid, a paramilitary unit fighting against Serbs and Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Framed by fanatics, veterans of Afghanistan and Algerian maquis, El-Moudjahid committed so many atrocities that his relationship with the regular Bosnian army quickly became detestable. When the peace accords were signed at the end of 1995, its members were expelled from Bosnia. Lionel Dumont then returned to France with his alter ego, Christophe Caze, another convert, a medical student met at the mosque on rue Archimède in Roubaix.