By the way, they did a pretty good job finding him, though it was rather easy. He made two giant mistakes:
1) He contacted the first killed soldier via his brothers’ email. Had he had any brains, he would have taken a laptop, gone out to some little village far away and found an unsecured WiFi network and sent it from there using a Hotmail/Gmail account he created right there on the stop. Obviously the laptop used would have been purchased second-hand via eBay using a fake address and would immediately afterwards be disposed off by burning it and throwing it in a river.
2) After the second killings, he went to a garage to have his scooter painted over. How freaking stupid can he be. He should have disposed of it immediately after the first murder, again, by burning it or putting it in some location where nobody would ever find it (for example, bury it in a forest – plenty of remote locations in southern France, it would take a couple of hours but would have been worth the trouble for him).
So basically he was a stupid idiot who made two giant mistakes that B”H led to him getting caught.
Had he had brains and thought of what I just wrote, he would never have been traced.
As for how I came up with this – read some crime books, follow the news, read and learn about some past criminal cases, and such things seem pretty obvious.
Let’s hope they get him alive so they can pick his brains apart. As I wrote before, the French (the DGSE / DCRI) have a reputation for getting people to talk. They can be quite convincing.