Azdyne Amimour has been searching for his granddaughter since 2015. He’s never met her and he’s not sure where she is, but he refuses to give up. #CBCShortDocs #FindingAlaa
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Azdyne Amimour’s son Samy was one of the terrorists responsible for the 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Samy was one of the attackers at the Bataclan Hall; he was killed when police shot at him and his suicide vest exploded.

Samy left behind a daughter, Alaa, born just days after the attacks in France. Amimour has never met her and even after years of searching, he hardly knows anything about her – except that she is in a camp, somewhere in Syria.

In Finding Alaa, Amimour takes the first legal steps to find his granddaughter, while grappling with pain, guilt, grief and shame about his son.

Finding Alaa was co-commissioned by CBC and BBC.

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