Early life and education Boubaker ben Habib El Hakim was born on 1 August 1983 in the
12th arrondissement of Paris. A salesman at
Monoprix, he was raised by his mother among two younger sisters. Returning to Paris in January 2003, he participated with
Farid Benyettou in the development in the
19th arrondissement of a network for sending young jihadist volunteers to Iraq, known as the “Buttes-Chaumont network”. At around the same time, while in a jihadist training camp near Baghdad, El Hakim was interviewed by an
RTL Group journalist. El Hakim stated that: “I am from Paris 19th! All my friends in the 19th I tell them come and do jihad! I'm ready to blow myself up, set some dynamites and boom boom!".
Battle of Fallujah Accompanied by his younger brother Redouane, then aged 19, he settled in
Tunisia, his parents' country of origin, where the regime of President
Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali had just been overthrown. Tunisian Interior Minister
Lotfi Ben Jeddou stated that Abu Bakr Al-Hakim was involved in the assassination of Brahmi, and in addition to his involvement in this assassination, he was also "involved in the case of weapons confiscation in Mnihla, Medenine, and Douar Hicher." On 17 December 2014 in Syria, he already claimed responsibility, under the
nom de guerre of Abou Mouqatil, for the double murder in an IS propaganda video: “Yes, tyrants, it is we who killed Chokri Belaïd and Mohamed Brahmi […] We will come back and kill many of you. You will not live in peace until Tunisia applies Islamic law”. In an interview published on 30 March 2015 in the eighth issue of the English-speaking jihadist magazine
Dabiq, El Hakim personally claimed responsibility for the murder of Mohamed Brahmi: “we stayed for four hours in front of this tyrant's house, we were waiting until 'When he left the house and got into the car, I killed him with ten bullets'. Subsequently, he joined the Amniyat, the intelligence service of the Islamic State. The DGSI suspected El Hakim of having planned in the fall of 2016, within an Islamic State cell responsible for external operations, half a dozen attacks which were to strike Europe and the Maghreb, including the members of the commando who were arrested in
Strasbourg and
Marseille on the night of 19 November 2016. He was also suspected of being involved “in the design and management of the project” of the attack prepared by the
Reda Kriket network, arrested on 24 March 2016 in Boulogne-Billancourt, then for having been in contact in October with the Syrian
Jaber al-Bakr in
Chemnitz. El Hakim later sponsored an attack carried out on 28 October 2016 on a police officer in
Constantine, Algeria. == Death ==