Three more people have been taken into police custody following the deadly attack on a German in Paris, according to media reports. These are people from the environment of the suspected Islamist perpetrator, as the media consistently reported on Sunday. Among them are said to be the parents of the man born in 1997.
On Saturday evening, a German man was reportedly murdered by an Islamist in Paris and two people were injured. The suspected perpetrator was already in prison for planning a previous attack and had significant psychological problems, according to the Minister of the Interior. He was arrested that evening.
Macron organizes a security meeting
According to media reports, French President Emmanuel Macron called a security meeting after the attack. Franceinfo and BFMTV unanimously reported that he had asked Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne to hold a meeting with the ministers of Justice, Home Affairs and Health on Sunday afternoon. The anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office also wanted a press conference in the evening.
Highest alert level in France
Two months ago, France was declared on the highest alert level over the risk of attacks after a radicalized former student stabbed a 57-year-old teacher and injured three other staff at a school in Arras, northern France. The twenty-year-old perpetrator, from Ingushetia, Russia, had previously sworn allegiance to the jihadist militia Islamic State (IS).
In recent years there have been several acts similar to those on Saturday evening in Paris. In May 2018, a Russian-French attacker born in Chechnya killed a passerby with a kitchen knife and injured four other people before police killed him. IS has claimed responsibility for the crime.
In February 2017, an Egyptian attacked security forces at the Louvre with a machete while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June 2021.
Source: Krone
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