Summary:
Discovers the truth behind is quite complicated, Kid and Nikov soon find out several reasons leading to such brutal killings and decapitations. In response, Kid and Nikov decide to witness, only to reveal more about the real reason the killer does so, and even, the identity and the whereabout of Taha, who is assumed to have provided financial supports to various militants and unknown groups in the world for the already arrested Saudi millionaire Ahmad Al-Salih. And they even see more from the back, even beyond the mind of the killer also have the same thinking behind such decapitation.
On the same time, gruesome murders keep going, as the killer keeps targeting various models and often kills several men as well, with similar method.
Paris, France
"One dead ISIS sympathizer in Paris, followed by two decapitated women in the city, both young, and being models of various fashion companies. How can it be explained?" Inspector Édouard Jannes could not understand clearly the motivation of the killer.
"Be it decapitation or not, I am not certain the motivation of it." Kid examined, as he watched from the iPhone, seemingly to have an answer: But I have my words, mark it."
"Mark what?" Ins. Jannes wondered.
"Because … it seems to be more complicated." Kid soon told about the story of the mad murderer: "The killer might have some real motivation for killing an ISIS sympathizer, and then beheaded two young models."
"So it must have connection. Perhaps from some highest level of the … fashion industry in France." Inspector Ousmane guessed out: "Then that's why the killer beheaded two models after killing a Daesh sympathizer."
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As Kid, Nikov, Ousmane and Édouard closely discovered the reality out of the range, a strange taxi, British-made, ended up in a garage outside Paris. A man, fat-looking, walked out and yelled:
"Retard, tu penses que les mannequins décapités vont nous faire parler pour toi?" (Retard, you think beheading fashion models will make us talk for you?)
"Non, Hassan Benbarki, c'est plus que la décapitation." (No, Hassan Benbarki, it's more than just beheading.)
The man was surprised when the suspect knew his name. The fat man discovered the man coming to him must have been armed, so he shouted: "Nous avons un intrus! Quelqu'un veut interrompre nos affaires!" (We've an intruder! Someone wants to interrupt our business!)
Some others arrived with a plenty of AK guns and other pistols, but shooting occurred and the man in the British-made car, a typical taxi system in the UK but removed the word "taxi", fired back. A gun exchange occurred.
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As the gun fire occurred, the shooting soon reached to the police's ears as they were investigating the decapitation of the Chinese model. Kid and Nikov got scary feeling, and urged police to deploy their men to outside.
"Bouge bouge! Le tournage était proche du golf de Saint-Germain!" (Move, move! The shooting was close to the Golf de Saint-Germain!)
"What the …" Kid and Nikov heard from outside the room and the shooting was occurring. Eventually, they jumped into a police car and ordered to drive there immediately. Inspector Ousmane was ordered to keep the ground of the decapitated model.
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Golf de Saint-Germain
After a brutal gun fire, only two survived, but the fat man, Hassan Benbarki, got severe injuries. The suspect, the same one who beheaded two Asian models and killed one ISIS member, looked on his eyes.
"J'ai une question: où est Taha?" (I have a question: where is Taha?)
"Quel Taha? Je ne sais rien de lui, espèce de merde!" (Which Taha? I know nothing about him, you monkey fuck!)
The masked man shot on the right foot, and Hassan screamed. But soon, the mysterious masked man also addressed.
"Je sais comment l'argent est acheminé. Pour financer votre propre organisation de merde via des entreprises de mode et votre gang Daesh, vous utilisez les modèles pour réussir. Avant que je décapite deux d'entre eux, ils portaient votre numéro, votre occupation et votre lien avec d'autres groupes inconnus servant des extrémistes, y compris au Mali." (I know how the money is channeled. To fund your own shitty organization via fashion companies and your Daesh gang, you use the models to be successful. Before I beheaded two of them, they had your number, your occupation, and your tie with other unknown groups serving for extremists, including in Mali.)
The way the man told about it showed a level of examination that Hassan could not believe it. He might have been informed about the decapitation of Yuushirou Katanaki and Lü Sunjun, two famous young models he boosted ground for. But seeing how he told, he soon noticed …
"Al-Qaïda, hein? Eh bien, maintenant je me rends compte … Al-Qaïda mène une guerre contre le califat … un imbécile de chien. Le califat fait de son mieux pour notre djihad et Al-Qaïda est vieille, maintenant. Tu le veux?" (Al-Qaeda, huh? Well, now I realize … Al-Qaeda is waging a war against the Caliphate … fool, foolish dog. The Caliphate is doing the best for our jihad, and Al-Qaeda is old, old now. You want it?)
"Non, vous ne le faites pas pour le califat. L'État islamique n'est pas un califat, c'est un infidèle de notre conviction. Ne vous inquiétez pas, j'ai déjà assez de collection de votre part et je vous enverrai au jugement d'Allah." (No, you don't do it for the Caliphate. Islamic State is not Caliphate, it is an infidel of our belief. Don't worry, I already have enough collection of yours, and I will send you to the judgement of Allah.)
"Quel?" (What?)
Before Hassan could pull the trigger, the masked man shot a bullet into the head again. Also a similar German-made, and this one was similar to how he killed Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta, it was a Luger-made model.
The bullet hit the temper, and the masked man left away with the computer of Hassan, leaving an already silenced Hassan in the ground. The villa of Hassan Benbarki, a beautiful and marvelous 17th century style, was now a war ground as the man drove his car away …
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When the police arrived, everything had gone too late. A man was found dead alongside several others, but it was clear, the scene was a scene of a brutal gun fight.
"So, a man there is dead."
Lying in the empty garage was a fat man, with a long beard. He had a green-haired appearance, and he lied on the ground. A bullet was grasped from the temple of his head, and it was completely known.
Kid and Nikov looked on the scene, windows were broken, rooms became a war scene. Overall, eight men died there. Inspector Édouard had to breathe a lot …
And from the police's information, they soon knew about the villa's owner.
"His name is Hassan Benbarki, a notorious Algerian jihadist who pledged loyalty to the Islamic State, but he evaded capture by using the fake name Ghassan Jemâa."
"What?" Kid looked on the fat man's body, and because he just wore a white three-hole shirt and under pant, it made the thing complicated.
"(Another ISIS cell killed. It happened just three hours after the discovery of the Chinese model. I guessed it must be a brutal blood trade.)"
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With the ambulance taken the men's bodies away, Inspector Édouard Jannes faced a lot of pressure. Because the Paris Fashion Week was about to happen in next 36 hours, the brutal decapitation of two models had a profound impact. While judging the case of two dead ISIS members was already problematic, if they could not solve the decapitation of two models, the Paris Fashion Week would be delayed, because the media had already taken attention.
"Shit …"
Kid and Nikov could not even expect that. The situation had become urgent as the Paris Fashion Week was about to happen. Now, they only had four evidences: two dead Daesh followers and two beheaded female models. And they had anything to link remained unclear, despite of Concong's assistant.
Suddenly, speaking about Concong's, Kid and Nikov turned on the iPhone of late Abdulla, reaching back the List they just decoded. And …
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"No wonder why the decapitation occurred."
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They remembered their WhatsApp, and they immediately took no hesitation, reading it back to see the background of the decapitation process as well as killing of two ISIS terrorists in Paris. It must be thanked for Anthony Concong for his quick reaction.
"The List!"
Kid and Nikov searched several names on the List, and they found that, some of them truly had relations to fashion factory. Some of these names also included …
… Souleymane Hadia and Ghassan Jemâa.
Both didn't command any fashion companies, yet …
"(While they are not fashion designers, they promoted several names into the fashion chains. Among them also includes … Yuushirou Katakani and Lü Sunjun, just found headless recently.)"
"So they actively promoted them to do something?" Kid got surprised.
"(But they're not the only two models being promoted. Hassan and Mohamed had done it to several models elsewhere. With a wide range of link, they had helped many models to achieve high standard in the fashion world.)"
"I agree. They also carried several names."
As Kid and Nikov were watching, suddenly the police reported about a missing stuff on the house of Hassan.
A computer.
"Nous avons constaté que Hassan Benbarki transportait souvent lui-même un ordinateur et travaillait souvent dans le cadre de ses affaires, en présence de plusieurs de ses amis. Cependant, l'ordinateur n'a pas été trouvé dans la villa." (We found that Hassan Benbarki often carried a computer himself and that he often did business, witnessed by several friends of his. However, the computer was not found in the villa.)
"(Computer?)" Nikov got surprised: "(Hassan Benbarki also had a computer for his own?)"
Kid and Nikov, informed about a computer, decided to take the task and ask the Inspector Jannes, who was facing problem to handle the case.
"Inspector!"
The Inspector, sitting in the chair, got himself in touch: "What's that?"
"I'd like to tell you a bit, but Hassan and Mohamed Abdoulaye did have business with the fashion factory. This explained why the killer sought to decapitate those models – he has a personal grievance, or perhaps there are conflicts among terrorist groups."
"You mean … Islamic State is having friction?" Inspector Jannes got amazed.
"Maybe, maybe not. But killing two Daesh members and decapitating two models, the killer might have been sending a message to ISIS followers that, he will do it more."
"That means … we must handle the case by considering it not just a criminal case, but also a terrorist cell."
"Indeed."
Kid and Nikov soon noticed about it, and they sought to see another name as well, and on the same time, they realized the link between several CEO fashion designers and various militant groups, including … Prada and Lanvin, which had links to two members of Islamic State as well.
From this discovery, they quietly understood a part of his motivation. Then, Kid and Nikov decided …
"Inspector, may we act it alone. The protection of the models for fashion week will have to rely on you."
"Wait … you will go?"
"Overall, we are just passengers. Previously former police officers, now travelers." Kiddo bid goodbye in happy face: "Monsieur, good luck."
"Wait …" As the French Inspector had yet to completely get the real fact, polyglots Kid and Nikov left the villa where the body of Hassan Benbarki was found. For them, the case had been solved, even though Kid and Nikov didn't speak out.
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Saint-Denis, France
A young girl was rushing out, as she received phone call from another. And the voice was no one by Chihaya Kisaragi, who appeared on the phone's name and image.
"Are you sure? The situation in Paris is serious, police is on a hunt for a terrorist."
"No worry, Chihaya." The girl, brown-haired, a mixed between Asian and European, not so long-haired like other but carrying Celine badge, showing that she was a model of the company itself: "I'll be fine."
"Please be careful." The girl named Chihaya responded in wary, as the half-Asian half-European girl was walking along. And the badge, the green eyes, she was like a nature-gifted model because of long legs and funny smile.
Unknown for her, a man covered with mask and wearing hooded coat was following behind. The same thing, same old thing.
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Meanwhile, Kid and Nikov on a taxi looked on. Kid was heading to another man, who was believed to be an ISIS member but hiding in Paris with another name as well.
"We'll make him talk. They know about the murder, and they also know about Taha."
"(Do you think we have to rush a lot for Taha?)"
"It will be better, then."
As the taxi was driving, another scene far away was about to come.
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The girl was walking as a man was following behind. The young woman was on her route to getting inside the business district to reach out her friend, so she entered into another metro station. The man behind kept following her.
Before entering the metro, she went into a building that was also an headquarter near the Seine River. It is the building of Celine, and she was about to do, as the staff was just ended their current business and left for lunch.
Yet, the man could still follow her very easy and when the young lady opened the door of the toilet for female, he quietly entered in. No one knew about it at all.
Celine's headquarter was not opened by then, and so she had to prepare. She was trying to grab something in the toilet as the man brought a katana to the restroom in the following. And she still knew nothing.
She would have a lot of job there.
"He told about the money there, and he kept elsewhere. Where is it …"
Then, she suddenly discovered a bunch of euros behind the pit toilet. She decided to grab the euros and hoped to leave without trouble.
Only … the bad thing was …
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"Salut beauté. Un moment de se sentir, mon cher." (Hi beauty. A moment to feel, my dear.)
"HAH?!"
The girl was trying to leave when the man turned his katana to be filled with …
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Kid and Nikov finally stopped the car in Gambetta Metro, where a man just headed back into a house near Planet Sushi, a restaurant. Kid and Nikov were finally informed, and decided to enter the building.
Their action was vigorous but quite needed to figure out the motivation. Despite objection from the owner, they still headed to third floor and shouted:
"Bilel Khadji, show yourself! Bilel!"
Nikov decided to put the trigger, take down the door as a man found out. This man was … Bilel's personal bodyguard, and he reacted by a gun fire. But it didn't last long, Kid responded with a gun fire and killed the bodyguard. After that, Kid and Nikov stormed the room which indicated the name Artiem Milliaud.
Artiem Milliaud was the fake name for Bilel Khadji, since Bilel looked like an Eastern European with blonde hair and blonde eyes. Bilel sought to escape, but Kid threw his katana in. Bilel got frightened to a point he could not run even when he suffered no injury. And so, Nikov and Kid decided to take a bang, putting him into a short sleep before decided to force him to confess.
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"L'argent, l'argent. Et c'est tout. Maintenant, je sais qui lui a envoyé cela: Bilel Khadji. Mais elle avait contacté un ami en terme de danger, je dois donc être rapide. Mettons Bilel à la question de Taha puis faisons le dernier décapité." (The money, the money. And that's it. Now, I know who sent this to her: Bilel Khadji. But she had contacted to a friend in term of danger, so I must be fast. Let's put Bilel to question of Taha then make the last behead.)
The man with mask and hooded coat had already done a brutal thing again and now he was cleaning a restroom filled with blood. And that was not the worst, but not in the shaping style.
Decapitation occurred there was so brutal and now he had to put a body, which was wearing women office uniform and her black skirt. Cleaning the blood in the wall and the glass was finally done, and with the diamond clogs outside, he realized he didn't have many times because the office was about to reopen again. So, throwing something to the garbage became a must.
After that, he left the restroom and changed clothes, before doing something else with the money he had on hands.
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Kid and Nikov tied the body of Bilel Khadji and told to the man there something after pulling water on the head of Bilel.
"Bilel, you know about Taha, right?"
"Taha?" Bilel's reaction was a shock: "He died a year ago!"
"What? What did you say?" Kid wondered: "Taha … was dead?"
"You … I guess you're meaning about. Taha Belal Abdallah Al-Shami, known as Taha! But he had disappeared one year ago, and from now on, we declared him dead."
"Disappeared?" Kid got a strange feeling of this case: "How was Taha like? How did he? I know you are a Daesh member and you have tie with several ISIS branches. You know about Taha, so you must explain what's going on."
"I do! I do! I maybe an ISIS member … but I am not having tie with Taha Belal Abdallah!" Bilel cried as he didn't want to see an early dead: "The problem is about this, Taha … he had a secret tie with several officials, and he told he could build a link between officials from MENA countries to other organizations."
"Which one? And does it have a link with your business in fashion industry?" Kid demanded an answer: "I have your information of your participation in fashion model industry and since you are an ISIS member, you know about them."
"I do have! Please … I can guarantee …" Bilel was kind of cowardice this moment: "I have put two models, they're …"
"They're what? And does it affect your business. Are there any CEOs in fashion industry helping the regrouping of ISIS?" Kid turned furious toward Bilel.
"The first one is Jenny Esparza, from the Philippines but with a French mother. The other one is … Jeannie Beatrix-Pauce, from Canada but lived in France for more than 15 years."
"So, how about your business?" Kid prepared to guess out: "I believe … doing fashion industry while maintaining tie with ISIS must provide a lot of money, don't you?"
"What?" Bilel was frightened since Kid showed his knowledge.
"Bilel, when you are an ISIS member, you know the organization is relied on funding in dark market. And ISIS is renowned for brutality method, so survival becomes an option. To do so, they even reach their octopus hand to every inch of economic industry, including … fashion." Kid examined something Bilel didn't imagine about: "Fashion is very pure, friendly, yet easily to be corrupted. Islamic State knew that, and they used extensive tie throughout members of ISIS abroad that hiding in secret and they needed economic development to do the case for the Caliphate quest. And fashion serves it well, it produces an outside shield to protect them."
"What did you mean overall?" Bilel had not out of fear.
"CEOs of some fashion companies do have business and they promote models that member of ISIS, including you, to gain attraction and survival. The money of corruption is used to defend ISIS while making internal turmoil inside anti-ISIS coalition."
"Damn it …" Bilel understood the mistake, and he just regretted, as his body was still being tied around the wooden chair: "What have we done … I just pushed … young, beautiful and pure ladies into death penalty … ISIS had just made a mistake that I could never forget …"
When the word "mistake" came out, Kid and Nikov got startled in the room of the apartment. This point, Kid and Nikov urged Bilel to remember back something that would be the key behind the case.
Both two received a surprising answer …
"Two years ago, they brutally executed an ISIS high-ranking member who had been very faithful toward them … Osama Kalidou. Osama Kalidou was from Timbuktu and joined ISIS as a loyal servant and even helped the group into much of brutal attacks in West Africa. He … he even organized the army of Boko Haram and other groups … notably, the Islamic militants in Mali … but then …"
"Then how?"
"One day, ISIS suffered a striking attack by the Tuaregs, and they lost. They blamed Osama for the failure because Osama was believed to have informed the Americans … But when I knew the truth was … he tried to warn but he was ignored, to a point he was butchered, the group decided to behead him. Osama Kalidou was betrayed from behind, and a group there … those like …"
"Hassan Benbarki and Mohamed Abdoulaye Keïta, right?"
"More … more my friends … my American friends, outside Hassan and Mohamed Abdoulaye, also included Ismail Gazavashvili, Wazir Hashim Khan and Mooshid Ayewala Kunde … they all betrayed Osama."
"They also have their hand in fashion industry?"
"Yes … I did witness the execution of Osama … and standing along him, the man had to do the execution was … his brother, the younger one, Khaled … Khaled was shocked, he did not want it. But … he had no choice … he and Osama lived brotherly many years ago."
The word of Khaled Kalidou soon came out, and so, as Kid and Nikov were listening, Bilel confessed all …
"Khaled was the executioner of the ISIS branch in West Africa, and he had done at least several executions with medieval methods of using axes. But Khaled had been shocked to do the last execution of Osama, his brother. Although he didn't want for, Osama didn't ask and Khaled … decapitated Osama. I witnessed that when the execution happened after the battle against the Tuaregs."
"And so, you had tried to overcome the shock …"
"I knew that … Khaled had never forgotten the reason behind his brother's death … and since I, who promoted Osama, had suffered full shock, I chose to escape and … I didn't want to associate with ISIS. I realized … the organization is full of retards, scumbags, madness suicide bombers who thought they were fighting in the name of Allah. Now … I am trying to become a fashion designer, to forget the past under the new name, new face, Artiem Milliaud …"
"How about Khaled Kalidou?"
"He … also deserted from the organization, and since then joined ISIS' rival, Al-Qaeda. He knew … Al-Qaeda hated ISIS and denounced many of the Islamic State's methods. In recent years, ISIS and Al-Qaeda have engaged against each other. But such case is … still … still … still …"
"Still what?"
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"Jenny, pourquoi es-tu si longtemps aux toilettes?" (Jenny, why are you in the restroom so long?)
A fellow coworker in Celine fashion company discovered Jenny, but this time only her long legs and the two diamond clogs. She tried to urge for Jenny by asking her was okay or not.
But Jenny didn't respond and her friend, same age to her, open the door of the restroom where it had the body of Jenny. As the fellow friend opened the door, all the thing she could have was …
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH …"
Her face turned into deep fear and she screamed.
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Kid and Nikov after a while of hearing the story from Bilel Khadji, understood the real evidence of the murder.
"So … you see it. You have nurtured a dangerous terrorist brother couple and now … because of your inaction, Khaled is looking for vengeance. He will not stop until he kills all of you and your models. He sees them as an act of collaboration."
"God … I am wrong … I have made a mistake … please to God … I don't want more people … I want my beloved models to be safe … so I can give up my cruel past life to become a normal citizens … God …" Bilel's eyes were unable to overcome the shock, and he cried, cried a lot, in tragedy and pain. He regretted his past, he regretted his support for ISIS, although he had yet to desert from the organization. Now … he only wanted to be forgiven.
Yet, another police movement meant it was not a good day, because it was already 15:00 afternoon.
When Kid looked on how, he realized …
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"Turn the TV!"
Nikov opened it up and this time, the media captured the scene. It was written in French, showing that …
"(A brutal murder occurred in the Celine's company headquarter in Saint-Denis. A female model was decapitated and her neck was drowned to the hole of the toilet to hide the evidence. Police has also recovered the severed head after checking throughout the headquarter of the company. The company has been closed for temporary reason to investigate.)"
"Celine? No … Jenny! Jenny Esparza … my dear …" Bilel even cried greater and full of trauma: "Jenny … you have been beheaded for what …"
Looking on the TV and the board "Celine", Bilel Khadji cried a lot as he could not believe it. It was Jenny who brought him back to life and to help him learn about the positive thing of the society, having left Mali for France in an ISIS terrorist undercover duty. He regarded Jenny like a person of his own.
"Jenny … she was the daughter of my soul even I didn't marry … Khaled … if you want, find me here!" Bilel cried bigger: "I have lost everything …"
But when Bilel had yet to overcome, Kid soon responded, coldly, but in regard: "No, Mr. Bilel Khadji, I understand you are trying. But since you have not severed tie with Islamic State, you are still an ISIS member. Now, I want you to be in jail."
"Put me in … I will accept all …" Bilel had fallen into unconsciousness after seeing the TV report about a brutal murder. This time, Bilel's confession gave them the boost to discover, although it needs to be faster since the case was unable to be hidden anymore. So, Kid told Nikov to tell the police to capture an ISIS member there near Gambetta Metro.
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15:30
Saint-Denis, France
The body of Jenny Esparza, the half Filipino, half French model, had yet to be moved away, but the severed head showed out in much fear. This time, Jenny didn't have enough time to resist because she didn't expect a man would decapitate her right in women's restroom. Kid and Nikov had hard time to figure over.
Inspector Ousmane, who had to go there, explained to Inspector Édouard from the iPhone. Then, Kid and Nikov stood with Ousmane.
"Same way of dead but this body is now in different circumstances. Both were models in fashion industry, together lost their heads, it had been hidden elsewhere. However, unlike Yuushirou and Lü's deaths, which their left arms were both put on the chest and the right arms put straight, the death of Jenny was quite amusing, her neck was completely drowned into the hole of the toilet and her head was thrown in the garbage near the office."
"Jenny Esparza is also 25?" Kid wondered.
"Yes." Ousmane admitted: "She had a browny short-haired appearance, green eyes, friendly, cheerful, always smile, loved nail polish and often walked with diamond clogs. Quite tall by standard of model, making her very fit."
"But now, we know about the identity of the murderer." Kid cheered Ousmane out: "I think … we should check the name of Khaled Kalidou."
Hearing the name of Khaled, Ousmane got stunned. Because he knew about Khaled Kalidou in his own way, since Ousmane was dispatched from Mali to investigate the link there.
"Khaled … he is West Africa's Jihadi John." Ousmane examined: "He had led a series of decapitation against many innocent throughout the short reign of Islamic State there, and their fucking loyalty to the bastard name Al-Baghdadi!"
"(It fits to our investigation with Bilel Khadji.)"
"And then, two years ago, after doing the last execution, he disappeared. No one knew how and why." Ins. Ousmane regarded the case: "It's hard, very hard. Because he has gone. And we know nothing about him. We just try to figure it out. But … such decapitation … only Khaled can do that."
From this moment, Kid, Nikov and Ousmane together understood that, Khaled Kalidou's motivation was clear. Kid also reported another investigation, perhaps his private one, to Ousmane.
"Inspector … Khaled's last execution was against his brother, a notorious and dangerous financer for ISIS, Osama. The death of Osama …"
"I know Osama! He used to be my friend in the same class before." Ousmane's eyes got bright: "Khaled must have suffered grievances against ISIS members for ordering the execution against Osama, which he had to do it himself."
"And this had led to his motivation." Kid realized.
"But one thing I still don't understand … why didn't he decapitate those Daesh members, instead he chose … decapitating models?"
This one became Kid and Nikov's favorite, and when they whispered to the ears of Inspector Ousmane, the Malian Inspector understood the key reason of the execution.
"But … guys, how can we speak out to public? Some models have expressed that the Paris Fashion Week must be delayed."
"Tell them … we don't delay it. Delay will help him take cover and escape. Instead, keep it happen. Tomorrow, the Fashion Week will begin, let it begin. I know which target he is waiting for."
"Are you sure?"
"Trust me." Kid and Nikov's determination had been placed, no need to discuss. And so …
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Khaled Kalidou, still under the mask, watched the TV after secretly going home. He turned on as the TV show called the news of the recent murder case.
The murder case had been publicized this time and reporters were asking about the murder and how would French police react, given this as the fifth deaths in just a week.
"Nous ne reculerons pas, et nous pourrons le confirmer, la Paris Fashion Week se poursuivra comme prévu. Nous veillerons à la sécurité de tous les modèles participant à la Fashion Week." (We won't back down, and we can confirm, the Paris Fashion Week will continue at schedule. We will ensure the safety of all models participating in the Fashion Week.)
Some reporters had asked about the possibility, given three models were murdered in gruesome near the Fashion Week. But Paris Chief Inspector, Alexandré Predicci, who was in the TV interview alongside Inspectors Édouard Jannes and Ousmane Diagné and other French police officer, both men and women, together stood firm that, the Fashion Week would be safe.
Khaled pulled his hood and laughed hard, as he told about the French police force, and others …
"Une bande d'imbéciles pense qu'ils peuvent m'arrêter? Pourtant, j'ai trois modèles et je l'ai fait! La dernière, Jeannie Beatrix-Pauce. Ce sera le dernier. Votre tête va bientôt sortir de votre corps." (A bunch of fools think they can stop me? Yet, I have three models and I did it! The last one, Jeannie Beatrix-Pauce. It will be the last one. Your head will soon go out of your body.)
Then, he drank a French-made wine from Alsace, to make himself fresh and happy, as in the room, there were already … four Barbie dolls, made up in the bodies of four models. As he put a head of a Barbie doll into pylons, it meant one of them was beheaded.
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha …"
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