Paris attacker appears before judge on terrorism charges
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A man suspected of stabbing a tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower will appear before a French judge on Wednesday on charges of carrying out the terrorist attack, a person close to the case said.
The attack late Saturday came as France was on the highest alert level following a war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas and a series of isolated attacks in the country.
The incident has heightened security concerns ahead of this summer's Paris Olympics.
The case is being handled by France's anti-terror prosecutor's office, which has launched an investigation into a “terrorist” conspiracy.
Born in 1997 to Iranian parents, Frenchman Armand Rajabpour Millandob is a known Islamic extremist who has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and is under psychological surveillance due to mental health issues. Ta.
He was arrested on suspicion of killing a 23-year-old man, identified as a German-Filipino, with two blows with a hammer and four blows with a knife, and wounding two others.
Rajabpur Miyandoab is expected to appear before an investigating judge in the afternoon and be formally charged ahead of trial, officials said.
Investigators said the suspect told investigators he was acting “in opposition to the persecution of Muslims around the world” and was “very ruthless” during interrogation.
According to Israel News Agency, after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas in Israel that killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, the official said the Eiffel Tower was chosen to be “lit up in the colors of the Israeli flag.'' I couldn't bear to be treated like that.” They alerted the authorities and witnessed about 240 hostages being taken.
Israeli shelling has killed more than 16,000 people in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run Gaza government.
Prosecutors say Rajabpur Miyandoab's family was non-religious, but he converted to Islam at the age of 18 and began consuming large amounts of Islamic State propaganda.
He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 for planning the attack, and was later released in 2020.
French Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin said on Monday that his case had “psychiatric flaws” because “doctors have said many times that his condition is improving.”
His mother had reported concerns about him as recently as October, but said there was not enough evidence at that time to take legal action.
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Source: guardian.ng