Fabien Clain (1978-2 March 2019) was a Reunionese-French jihadist of the Islamic State.
Biography[]
Fabien Clain was born in 1978 in Toulouse, France, and he converted to Sunni Islam in the 1990s after previously being Catholic. Along with his brother Jean-Michel, he became radicalized in the early 2000s, and in 2004 the two of them went to study the Qur'an in Cairo, Egypt. He became a radical Islamist and encouraged Mohammed Merah and Sabri Essid to also become radicals, and Merah killed 7 people in the cities of Toulouse and Montauban in 2012. In 2009 he was arrested for assisting in the travelling of foreign fighters to join the Iraq War against the United States, and in 2014 Clain himself headed to Syria to fight in the Syrian Civil War after he was released from prison. In November 2015, he appeared in a video claiming responsibility for the November 2015 Paris attacks. He was killed in Syria by a drone strike on 2 March 2019.