{"id":309243,"date":"2017-05-22T10:10:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/informant-claude-hermant-implicates-french-state-in-charlie-hebdo-attacks\/"},"modified":"2017-05-22T10:10:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:10:39","slug":"informant-claude-hermant-implicates-french-state-in-charlie-hebdo-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/informant-claude-hermant-implicates-french-state-in-charlie-hebdo-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Informant Claude Hermant implicates French state in Charlie Hebdo attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Informant Claude Hermant implicates French state in Charlie Hebdo attacks<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Anthony Torres<br \/>\n    <br \/>22 May 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Claude Hermant, a police informant arrested in the case of the January 7, 2015 attack on <em>Charlie Hebdo<\/em> in Paris, has implicated the French state in the preparation of the attack. Hermant, who allegedly sold weapons used by Am\u00e9dy Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers to commit the attacks, is reportedly charging that three <em>gendarme<\/em> military policemen and two customs officials, as well as organized crime circles, were involved.<\/p>\n<p>The case shatters the official narrative, according to which terror attacks in France, Belgium, and Germany since 2015 have been the work of isolated Islamists.<\/p>\n<p>Hermant\u2019s lawyer, Maxime Moulin, does not dispute the fact that weapons that passed through the hands of his client, who was acting for the customs\u2019 intelligence agency until 2013 and then worked for the <em>gendarmerie<\/em>, reached Coulibaly. The media and established political parties covered up this fact, together with Hermant\u2019s arrest after the attacks due to his relations with Coulibaly. The interior minister in 2015, Bernard Cazeneuve, even invoked the states secrets privilege in regard to investigations of the relations between Hermant and the Islamists.<\/p>\n<p>Moulin filed a suit with the state prosecutor\u2019s office in Lille on May 2, accusing the interior minister of endangering his client\u2019s life. He stated, \u201cWe are demanding the lifting of the states secrets privilege. Things are being hidden, this was the solution that we found to obtain the truth. \u2026 We want to have access to this information. We are officially asking that the Interior Ministry lift the states secrets privilege on all contact reports [between the <em>gendarmerie<\/em> and Claude Hermant]. We want to know what reports were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/05\/22\/herm-m22.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Informant Claude Hermant implicates French state in Charlie Hebdo attacks By Anthony Torres 22 May 2017 Claude Hermant, a police informant arrested in the case of the January 7, 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, has implicated the French state in the preparation of the attack. Hermant, who allegedly sold weapons used by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}