Ten years later, the youngest brother of Imad Ibn Ziaten, killed by Mohamed Merah, speaks for the first time. He confided in the microphone of our colleagues from France Bleu Occitanie.
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Ten years to the day after the death of Imad Ibn Ziaten, the first victim of Mohamed Merah in the attacks in Toulouse and Montauban in March 2012, his youngest brother Ilyasse estimated on Friday March 11 on France Bleu Occitanie that“we do not realize the life after for the families”.
In his very first interview, Ilyasse, who was 19 when his brother was killed, explains that he is always “paranoid” when he goes out: “At the cinema, I tell myself maybe it’s my turn, that I’m going to get killed. I live it every day”, he says. He has only returned to Toulouse once in ten years, where he says he does not feel “not safe”because according to him “accomplices are still outside”.
Ilyasse Ibn Ziaten also denounces the suspicions that weighed on his family at the start of the investigation, before the terrorist trail was confirmed, with the assassinations of two other soldiers, as well as three Jewish children and a teacher in Toulouse and Montauban. “When we ourselves are suspected of having killed our own brother, honestly, I am not over it”, he explains, referring to “a double trauma”. “Dirting his memory, it destroyed us all”he adds, with reference to the thesis of the settlement of accounts, a time considered.
The youngest brother of Imad Ibn Ziaten currently works within the association “Imad for Youth and Peace”founded by his mother Latifa. “It’s what we do on the ground with the youth, it’s the people we save from this deadly ideology, he concludes. The more we save a young person, the more we see Imad grow.”