In a 400-page court record, Cherif Kouachi was described as wanting to travel to Iraq through Syria “to go and combat the Americans.”
On Friday, security forces surrounded and killed Kouachi, 32, and his older brother, Said, 34, in Dammartin-en-Goele, France, the town’s mayor said. The Kouachi brothers were wanted in Wednesday’s massacre at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris that left 12 people dead.
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When officials confronted Kouachi with that information, he told them “that’s not exactly what I said. … I don’t hide having proposed anti-Semitic ideas, but I would note that I never really would have done that.”
