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Soleil

of Hip-Hop/Rap
A.k.a. Denis Mamadou Cuspert Deso Dogg

Former Ghanaian (gangsta) rapper, older brother of Lil' Deso. Born in 1975 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. At the end of 2010 he quit his rapper career and is now an islamic preacher, called "Abou Maleeq", later "Abu Talha al-Almani". He releases Naschid music in German language. German officials say that his videos and speeches contain inflammatory rhetoric that promotes violence. Denis Cuspert is known to be affiliated with Austrian born al-Qaeda affiliate Muhammad Mahmoud who, as of August 2012, was reported to have fled to Egypt to establish a German Salafist colony which seeks to impose Sharia law in Germany. Furthermore, it has also been reported that Cuspert, after being under observation by German authorities in Berlin, had also managed to flee to Egypt. In 2013, he appeared in a video claiming to be on jihad in Syria.