Algerian security source: ISIS trained Sousse gunman in Libya

The Tunisian gunman who killed 38 people on a beach resort last week was trained by an Islamic State (ISIS) affiliated group in Libya, an Algerian security source revealed.

The source, who spoke to the Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity, said a “number of countries are helping the Tunisian security services to investigate the terrorist attack.”

According to the source, “the agencies including an Algerian-French security body concluded that Rezgui had unclear ties to ISIS in Cyrenaica, Libya.”

“The investigation revealed that Rezgui moved secretly at least twice to Libya in the period between August 2014 and January 2015 and stayed for at least two weeks during his second visit in the Cyrenaica region.”

According to the same source, “investigators believe that Rezgui received high military training at a secret camp for the militant group at a site near the city of Cyrenaica and that he sent emails from a computer in Libya in January 2015.”

“Phone calls made by Rezgui in January 2015 showed that he was in the nearby city of Cyrenaica, which was controlled by ISIS.”

“Tunisian investigators have examined a range of computers and mobile phones which belonged to Rezgui, they showed that he had a secret relationship with members of the militant group in Cyrenaica,” the source explained.