Increased police presence near the Eiffel Tower after the attack
The day after the deadly attack in Paris, the police presence has been reinforced near the Eiffel Tower “from today,” announced Laurent Nunez on BFMTV.
Laurent Nunez salutes “the courage of the police”
Invited on BFMTV, Laurent Nunez, the police chief of Paris, saluted “the courage and composure of the police.”
The judge had refused a home visit to the suspect requested in 2020 by the DGSI
According to information from BFMTV, the DGSI had requested a home visit to the suspect of the deadly attack in Paris in October 2020. The request was refused by the judge of freedoms and detention.
The German chancellor, on X, said he was “shocked by the terrorist attack”
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, said he was “shocked by the terrorist attack” that occurred in Paris on Saturday, “during which a German was killed.” “Our thoughts are with the wounded, the families, and friends of the victims,” he said.
The parents and sister of the suspect placed in custody
According to information from Le Parisien, at least three relatives of the assailant are currently in police custody. These include his parents and sister.
Digital exchanges with the assassin of Samuel Paty in 2020
According to BFMTV, the assailant had “digital conversations” with the assassin of Samuel Paty, Abdoullakh Anzorov, in 2020.
At the foot of the Eiffel Tower, tourists are not very worried the day after the attack
With their noses raised towards the Eiffel Tower, tourists stroll on the Champ de Mars, where Parisians calmly go for a run, saying they are not very worried the day after the attack by a radical Islamist that killed a tourist and injured two others.
Three people from the assailant’s circle in police custody
Three “members of the circle” of Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a 26-year-old Franco-Iranian who stabbed a German-Filipino tourist near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Saturday night, are currently in police custody, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office said on Sunday.
Approximately 5,200 people known for radicalization in France, 20% with psychiatric disorders
About 5,200 people are known for radicalization in France, with 1,600 people being particularly monitored by the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), according to a source within the intelligence. It is specified that 20% of these 5,000 people have psychiatric disorders.
Press conference at 19:30
The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor Jean-François Ricard will hold a press conference Sunday at 19:30, after the fatal knife attack on Saturday evening in the capital, near the Eiffel Tower, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office announced in a statement. The conference will be held at the Paris judicial court.
The French Council for Muslim Worship (CFCM) calls on Muslims to be “vigilant”
The French Council for Muslim Worship called on Muslims in France to be “vigilant,” fearing that the deadly attack on Saturday evening in Paris near the Eiffel Tower could be “exploited by far-right entities.” The representative body of Muslims stated that it feared the tragic event would be exploited “by far-right entities to exacerbate tensions and stigmatize an entire community,” as was the case, according to it, after the recent death of a young man at a ball in Drôme.
Emmanuel Macron asked the Prime Minister to organize a security meeting this Sunday afternoon
Liberation indicates that a security meeting will be held on Sunday afternoon at Matignon at the request of Emmanuel Macron. The ministers of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, and Health, Aurélien Rousseau, are called to this meeting.
The terrorist was under psychiatric follow-up according to Aurélien Rousseau
“He had a follow-up that was not treatment in which he had to be hospitalized, he had to follow a treatment,” noted the Minister of Health. “Even if we have significantly strengthened the links between psychiatrists and the authorities monitoring these radicalized people in recent years, it does not allow us to know the day and time of the passage to the act,” he added.
Marine Tondelier (EELV) deplores the “dispersion of forces” within intelligence
The head of the Greens, Marine Tondelier, raised the question of the “priorities of intelligence services” after the knife attack in Paris, regretting the “dispersion of forces” due, according to her, to the government’s misuse of the word “terrorist.”
Threat to the Olympic Games?
“I think it would not be completely absurd, and I imagine it must be done to think of a possible plan B if terrorist acts were to continue in our country,” said the vice-president of the Île-de-France region, Frédéric Péchenard.
Reassuring news about the two people injured with the hammer
“The two people injured in the second phase of the attack, with a hammer by this terrorist, are in good health today (Sunday),” said the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau on France 3, indicating that “there is no vital prognosis” engaged concerning them.
Where is the terrorist’s custody taking place?
The custody of the suspected assailant is taking place at the Bastion, next to the judicial court on Batignolles, where the headquarters and services of the Regional Directorate of Judicial Police of the Paris Police Prefecture are located.
The assailant wanted to die, according to BFMTV
According to concordant sources at BFMTV, at the time of his arrest, the assailant said he wanted to die at the end of his action. This information confirms the assailant’s intention of a “stand-off with the police,” by pushing the law enforcement to use their firearms. The suspect had claimed to have explosives on him.
Who are the victims of this attack?
A new terrorist attack strikes our city,” laments Anne Hidalgo. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, deplored on WhatsApp “a new terrorist attack [that] has just struck our city” and paid tribute to the police who “reacted so quickly,” as well as the firefighters and emergency services, who “immediately took care of the wounded.” Anne Hidalgo also said she was sending “all [her] thoughts to the victims and their families.”
The assailant’s custody has begun
According to a source close to the investigation at BFMTV, the assailant repeated in police custody the speech he made at the time of his arrest. He thus mentioned the persecution of Muslims, particularly in Palestine. This custody regime can last up to 96 hours, four days, since the reasons of “murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “criminal terrorist association” were retained by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office.
The terrorist was “connected to the entire” jihadist sphere, according to Le Parisien
Le Parisien reveals that the author of the Paris attack was connected to the terrorists in the attack against Father Hamel in Saint-Etienne du Rouvray in 2016 and those in the Magnanville attack against police officers.
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