In accordance with paragraph 13 of resolution 1822 (2008) and subsequent related resolutions, the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee makes accessible a narrative summary of reasons for the listing for individuals, groups, undertakings and entities included in the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.
Maxime Hauchard was listed on 29 September 2015 pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 4 of resolution 2161 (2014) as being associated with Al-Qaida for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of” Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115).
Maxime Hauchard is a French national who travelled from France to Mauritania in 2012, posed as a humanitarian aid worker to travel to the Syrian Arab Republic through Turkey in August 2013, and has joined Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115). In November 2014, Hauchard was identified in an ISIL execution video depicting the beheading of several Syrian soldiers and showed the severed head of Peter Kassig, an American hostage. In the video Hauchard can be seen preparing to kill a line of Syrian soldiers.