KEY PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS

Abu Mussab Al-Suri—author of the Global Islamic Resistance Call (2005)

Abdelhamid Abaaoud—main jihadi involved in the November 2015 attacks in Paris

Abdulillah/Olivier Corel—leader of the Salafist settlement in Artigat

Mohamed Achamlane (aka. Abu Hamza)—founder of Forsane Alizza

Artigat Network—an Islamist network based in the town of Artigat in southwestern France

Djamel Beghal—convicted of terrorism in 2005. Mentored Chérif Kouachi in prison.

Salim Benghalem—French jihadi in Syria; involved in the November 2015 attacks in Paris

Farid Benyettou—Salafist “guru” to the Kouachi brothers in 2005

Buttes-Chaumont Network—an Islamist network based in the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris

Charlie Hebdo—a satirical French weekly newspaper

Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain—converts to Islam involved in the November 2015 attacks in Paris and former members of the Artigat network

Amedy Coulibaly—perpetrator of the January 9, 2015, attack on Hyper Cacher supermarket

Forsane Alizza—an Islamist group formed in 2010 and shut down in 2012

Sid Ahmed Ghlam—suspected to have planned an attack on a church in Villejuif in 2015

GIA—Groupe Islamique Armé (Armed Islamic Group), one of the main Islamist groups during the Algerian Civil War, 1992–1997

François Hollande—Socialist Party politician. Elected president of France in 2012.

Khaled Kelkal—terrorist affiliated with the GIA. He was involved in the 1995 Paris metro bombings, as well as other incidents. Killed September 1995.

Ayoub el-Khazzani—attacked passengers on the Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris in 2015

Saïd and Chérif Kouachi—brothers who attacked the staff of Charlie Hebdo, January 7, 2015

Jean-Marie Le Pen—the founder of the National Front, the main far-right party in France

Marine Le Pen—a French politician who is the leader of the National Front and daughter of the party’s founder

Dieudonné M’bala M’bala—French comedian, actor, and political activist who is strongly anti-Zionist.

Mohamed Merah—attacked several French soldiers and a Jewish school in March 2012 in Toulouse

Mehdi Nemmouche—suspected perpetrator of the attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium, May 2014

Omar Omsen—Jihadi from Nice who joined the Islamic State in Syria. Creator of compelling recruitment videos.

Ségolène Royal—Socialist Party politician who ran for president in 2007

Nicolas Sarkozy—President of France 2007–2012

Alain Soral—far-right journalist and filmmaker. Founder of the website and political movement Egalité et Réconciliation.