A French "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) element who became notorious after voicing an audio recording claiming responsibility for the November 2015 attacks in Paris was killed in an overnight airstrike, AFP reported Thursday (February 21st).
Fabien Clain, who is believed to have gone to Syria in March 2015, was killed in the group's last Syrian redoubt of al-Baghouz, security sources said on condition of anonymity.
Clain was found guilty of helping send extremists to fight in Iraq in 2009 before leaving himself to live in ISIS’s self-proclaimed proto-state six years later.
His brother Jean-Michel was wounded in the same raid that killed Fabien in al-Baghouz, where the last ISIS fighters are holding out against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the sources said.
There was no immediate confirmation of the report from the French defence or foreign ministries.
Clain is also known as Brother Omar, or Abu Adam al-Faransi.
