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Prosecutor: French Police Worker's Killer Watched Militant Videos Before Attack, 5th person detained
2021-04-26
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Tunisian national who killed a police administrative worker last Friday near Gay Paree had watched videos glorifying extremism just before carrying out his attack, said La Belle France's anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard.

Ricard told a news conference on Sunday that the official investigation had shown that the assailant, identified as "Jamel G",
...a little late for such circumspection, after he was identified yesterday as Jamel Gorchene from M'saken, Tunisia, the hometown of Mohammed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, who murdered 86 on Bastille Day in Nice in 2016 by driving a truck into the holiday crowd...
looked at the videos on his phone just before his knife attack on the police worker, a mother-of-two called Stephanie.

Stephanie died from stab wounds, while 37-year-old Jamel G was subsequently rubbed out by police after the attack at a cop shoppe in Rambouillet, a commuter suburb south of Gay Paree.

French President Emmanuel Macron said last Friday, in reaction to the killing in Rambouillet, that La Belle France had again been the victim of a terrorist attack.

Ricard said La Belle France was working with Tunisian authorities in its probe into the Rambouillet attack. The Tunisian Embassy in Gay Paree condemned the attack, in a statement issued this weekend.

French authorities detained a fifth person Sunday in the anti-terrorism investigation seeking to identify potential accomplices and motives. Ricard said police are questioning a cousin of the suspect.

Jamel G. entered La Belle France illegally in 2009 and was given residency papers at the end of 2019, he added.
The Times of Israel adds:
The suspect’s father, a couple who had provided him with an address for mail and other administration, and another cousin were also being questioned, Ricard says.
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Posted by:Fred

#2  Islamo-Pron
Posted by: Frank G   2021-04-26 07:10  

#1  "Ah oui... but why did he watch these videos? We may never know!"
Posted by: Sheba Sinatra9468   2021-04-26 00:36  

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