In 2011, however, he did praise the Taliban because they "behead unbelievers who oppose Muslims", according to the 2016 verdict. While he now calls on "honest" Belgian Muslims to follow his example and come to Afghanistan (10/10)

He explicitly says that he is not in Afghanistan to wage jihad and was also misunderstood in the past. "I wanted to live under the laws of Allah as I do here now, not planting bombs and killing people" (9/10)

He doesn't reveal his exact whereabouts. But together with @brunostruys.bsky.social, @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social and the phenomenal @obretix.bsky.social we were able to locate him here in the northern city of Kunduz (8/10) www.google.com/maps/place/3...

He now says he will continue that project in Afghanistan, also with the intention that it will benefit an orphanage, images of which he shows in his recent videos (7/10)

In recent years, he has raised money to establish an ecological Muslim village under the name 'Hijra Permaculture Autonomie', which he tried in vain in Benin (where he was arrested and deported) and Indonesia (6/10)

In 2016, Denis was sentenced, first to 10 and on appeal to 5 years in prison. When he was released in 2018, he readily admitted to having become even more radicalized (5/10)

One of them was Najim Laachraoui, later known as explosives expert of the Islamic State, who supplied the bombs for the Paris attacks of November 13, 2015 and who himself died in the Brussels attacks on March 22, 2016 (4/10)

In 2011, he started distributing food to the homeless under the name 'Resto du Tawhid', which earned him a large following, whom he soon began recruiting for Syria. In total, at least 57 FTFs left with his help (3/10)

Alternately known as Jean-Louis Le Soumis, Abu Sara and Abu Yahya, he came into the picture as an extremist as early as 2008. At that time, he distributed pamphlets against democracy and for jihad around the Brussels North Station (2/10) www.hln.be/buitenland/e...

Apparently not - although I don't know the details, it appears to be a non-combat related health issue.

Here's a video of the salat janaza, the funeral prayer performed for Chourouhou also posted on X by Michael Devred, who has started a collection to support the "many relatives of Tustari in Belgium" - using the most common nickname for the man who was known in Syria as Abu Rashid (9/9)

Chourouhou passed away in the hospital on the night of November 28 to 29, 2024, his friend Michael 'Abourayan' Devred (sentenced in 2016 to 5 years and 4 months, of which 5 years suspended) announced on X, formerly known as Twitter - posting this picture of the deceased (8/9)

Just as Suqur as-Sham was taking part in the offensive led by Hayat Tahrir as-Sham (the Islamist militia that once emerged from the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) that led to the recent capture of Aleppo, Chourouhou had to be hospitalised for an unspecified health problem (7/9)

According to Jean-Louis Denis, one of Belgium's most notorious recruiters for jihad in Syria who served his sentence and was released in 2018, Chourouhou recently worked for a local judge in Syria — most likely under the authority of Suqur as-Sham in Idlib (6/9)

Chourouhou was sentenced in absentia to 10 years for terrorism in Brussels on 29 July 2015. But while Ayachi was captured and sentenced to 5 years (4 suspended) in Paris in 2022, Chourouhou remained in Syria and thus escaped prosecution (5/9) www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Earlier that year I also posted video footage that Chourouhou had then distributed of his sheikh Ayachi in Idlib, which had just been captured from the regime of Bashar al-Assad - historical footage that is probably nowhere else to be found today (4/9) emmejihad.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/f...