Christian Ganczarski

Christian Ganczarski, born 1966 in Gliwice, Silesia, Poland, is a German citizen of Polish ancestry who converted to Islam. He is one of the individuals who has been described^{[by whom?]} as the head of "al Qaeda in Europe".^[1] Ganczarski was captured when a plane he was travelling in France.

Early on the morning of April 11, 2002 Niser bin Muhammad Nasar Nawar and a colleague drove the truck loaded with natural gas canisters behind a German tourist bus near the El Ghriba synagogue on Djerba island, Tunisia.^[1] Nawar then used a cell phone belonging to his brother, to phone Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ganczarski.^[2] After his colleague fled the scene on foot, Nawar detonated the explosives.^[1]

In February 2009, Ganczarski was sentenced by a French court to 18 years in prison for the bombing.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Hedges, Chris. New York Times, Tunisian killed in Synagogue blast was unlikely convert to militancy, June 9, 2002
2. ^ BBC, Two jailed over Tunisia bombing, February 5, 2009
3. ^ Michel Moutot. Al Qaeda militant found guilty for Tunisian synagogue attack

1. ^ French Allege Detained German Is Top Al Qaeda Leader

Further reading

• Political Serial Killing by Proxy: Christian Ganczarski the chief perpetrator, Nizar Nawar his proxy and the Djerba Synagogue Bombing by Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin [2]^{[dead link]}

Persondata
Name	Ganczarski, Christian
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1966
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death