Fifth Person Detained In French Terror Attack Inquiry By Murielle KASPRZAK and Joseph SCHMID
04/25/21 AT 7:40 AM
A fifth person has been detained for questioning over the grisly killing of a police employee outside Paris by a Tunisian man who embraced Islamist extremism in recent months, France s chief anti-terror prosecutor said Sunday.
Based on an analysis of the killer s cellphone as well as social media postings, his radicalisation appears little in doubt, Jean-Francois Ricard said at a press conference.
The 36-year-old attacker, identified as Jamel Gorchene, stabbed a woman who worked at the police station in Rambouillet, a suburb southwest of Paris, on Friday as she was returning from a break.
PARIS (AP) — French authorities detained a fifth person Sunday in an anti-terrorism investigation seeking to identify potential accomplices and motives after a police official was fatally stabbed at a
PARIS (Reuters) -The Tunisian national who killed a police administrative worker last Friday near Paris had watched religious videos glorifying acts of jihad just before carrying out his attack, said France's anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard. The murder has shocked France, which faces a presidential election next year at which issues such as fears over terrorist attacks, immigration and violent crime will dominate the agenda. Ricard told a news conference on Sunday that the official investigation had shown that the assailant, identified as "Jamel G", looked at the videos on his phone just before his knife attack on the police worker, a mother-of-two called Stephanie.
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1of3French police officers block the access next to the police station where a police official was stabbed to death Friday in Rambouillet, south west of Paris, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Anti-terrorism Investigators were questioning three people Saturday detained after the deadly knife attack a day earlier on a police official at the entry to her station in the quiet town of Rambouillet, seeking a motive, purported ties to a terrorist group and whether the attacker, killed by police, acted alone.Michel Euler/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3A man hands flowers to a police officer to be taken down to the police station where a police official was stabbed to death Friday in Rambouillet, south west of Paris, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Anti-terrorism Investigators were questioning three people Saturday detained after the deadly knife attack a day earlier on a police official at the entr