Jérôme Courtailler is a French radical Islamic extremist convicted of belonging to a terrorist organization.
Courtailler later traveled first to Peshawar, Pakistan, and later attended an Afghan training camp, and is believed to have played a role in supplying the forged documents to the two men who assassinated Ahmed Shah Massoud in September 2001.
The French police were alerted of this after he was arrested for shoplifting a pair of shoes in Calvados, France.
His father was a butcher who went bankrupt, divorced his mother, and moved to work in a meatpacking plant far away.
Shortly thereafter he stayed in Zacarias Moussaoui's apartment, and afterwards travelled to an Al Qaeda's Khalden training camp in Afghanistan.