Christophe Caze, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Christophe Caze

French terrorist and criminal

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1969

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1996

Profession: musician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Christophe Caze

  • Christophe Caze (22 October 1969–29 March 1996) was a French terrorist and criminal, a former medical student in Lille, France.
  • Caze was one of France's foremost terrorists. Caze was raised Catholic.
  • A medical student, he travelled to Bosnia in 1992 to practice medicine, working at the Zenica hospital.
  • He converted into Islam and joined the Bosnian mujahideen in the Bosnian War, a unit that fought Jihad against Serbs.
  • He became an extremist, and is reported to have played football with heads of decapitated Serbs.
  • Abu Hamza al-Masri, who was a Bosnian mujahideen, was the religious guide of Christophe Caze.
  • Another French convert was Lionel Dumont, who also joined the mujahideen. He returned to France a radical Islamist, and became the leader of a GIA group based in Roubaix, the "Gang de Roubaix".
  • The group robbed banks, armoured cars and supermarkets with machine guns and grenade launchers.In March 1996 the group planned to assassinate international leaders at the G7 meeting in Lille, using a car bomb.
  • French police found the bomb, and then killed four in the group in an apartment shootout.
  • Caze escaped but was shot dead the next day after trying to ram a police checkpoint, on motorway E17 near Kortrijk, Belgium.
  • His address book was found to contain the contact information for Algerian resident in Canada, Fateh Kamel, another Bosnian mujahideen and suspect of militant ties.

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