Svenske Johan Gustafsson, kidnappad av terrorister i Timbuktu 2011, släppt 2017

The leader of Spider Squad, Jugoslav Petrušić, who is a dual Serb and French citizen, was allegedly recruited by French intelligence in the late 1980s. In the mid-1990s, Petrušić helped French intelligence transport nearly 200 Bosnian Serb mercenaries to Zaire, where they fought in support for the country’s late President Mobutu Sese Seko. Seko was eventually overthrown by Laurent Kabila, who was supported diplomatically and militarily by Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, among other countries. It was in Zaire, Serbian government sources claim, that Petrušić was tasked by French intelligence to organize an assassination team targeting Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. He and the two other Spider Squad members arrived in Serbia in 1999, where they received money from Paris, transported through Hungary by Slobodan “Serge” Lazarević, a Hungarian-born French intelligence agent. The three were arrested soon afterwards by Yugoslav counterintelligence.Länk

Mais surtout, d'après les informations d'Europe 1, les deux hommes ne seraient pas inconnus des autorités françaises. En 1999, Serge Lazarevic apparaît ainsi dans une procédure judiciaire en Serbie, visant un réseau clandestin financé par le contre-espionnage français. Et qui devait, selon la justice serbe, assassiner le président Slobodan Milosevic. Deux ans auparavant, l’homme, d’origine hongroise, aurait également participé au recrutement de mercenaires yougoslaves envoyés combattre au Zaïre, pour soutenir le régime du président Mobutu. Là encore, cette opération, bien que privée, était suivie de très près par une des agences française de renseignement.
Verdon, un putsch raté aux ComoresLänk