[ad_1]
French judicial sources revealed, on Saturday, that the author of the attack with a knife, which occurred a few meters from the former headquarters of the magazine “Charlie Hebdo”, yesterday, is called Ali. H., a Pakistani national, was born in 2002 in Islamabad and admitted that the attack was directed against the satirical magazine.
The 18-year-old Pakistani, who arrived in France in August 2018, was at that time a minor, as an organization that deals with immigrant minors tracked his papers and applied for asylum in France. At the current stage, according to sources, the process of verifying your identity and the information you provided is based on an analysis of your fingerprints that were taken by the French authorities when you applied for asylum.
The newspaper Le Monde cited sources close to the investigation that Hassan A. appeared to be over the age he declared upon arrival in France, so on July 19, 2019 a lawsuit was filed against him related to his age, a measure that the French authorities have been taking frequently in recent years, following the increase in cases that young people have declared that they are minors. It ruled in your favor that you are a beneficiary of social assistance for unaccompanied minors.
The young Pakistani man used a machete to attack and wound two people after they went out to smoke in front of the old building of the French satirical newspaper, the same headquarters in which militants launched an attack on January 7, 2015, in which they died 12 persons.
During his stay in France, the author of the operation did not reveal any extremist behavior, but in his criminal record the case of carrying a “screwdriver”, but in the initial investigation that was carried out with him and that continued until the early hours of Saturday, He admitted that his behavior was very deliberate and deliberate. The Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office can open a case of “attempted murder related to a terrorist organization”.
According to his statements during the investigation, Hassan A., who speaks poor English and French, confirmed that he acted alone, but then the security authorities announced the arrest of a 33-year-old Algerian at the Richard Lenoir metro station near the scene of the attack. . The latter was seen through video surveillance cameras while talking to Ali H. On the subway. But he was released at night, as there was no evidence against him.
According to his lawyer, Lucy Simon, who explained the circumstances of his arrest in statements to the media, the man had no relationship with the perpetrator of the attack, rather he tried to arrest him before informing the police.
So far, the security authorities exclude that the perpetrator of the operation has been recruited or directed by groups from the Iraqi-Syrian region or even from Afghanistan, due to the lack of sufficient evidence, and the rudimentary nature of the operation and the weapon used. But despite this, six people close to him were arrested. Still in detention, five of his Pakistani roommates, plus one other roommate, remain in custody, while staying in a shelter for the homeless and immigrants in Cergy Pontoise, north of the capital Paris.
The daily “Le Monde” quoted one of the investigators in charge of the case as saying that the arrest cases are not yet evidence of anything, but rather “part of the normal nature of the investigation carried out in such cases” .
In any event, the French authorities did not find any evidence or merits to aid the open investigation in the places where the author had passed, or in the places where his acquaintances had been detained.
French media cited sources in the investigation that “no elements were found linking Ali H. to any jihadist environment or a specific place of worship in France,” meaning that the nature of the investigation may shift towards “tracking down an individual whose operation was inspired by the surrounding media and political context. ” And, in particular, the call for revenge launched by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on September 11 after the reissue of the cartoon of the prophet Muhammad by Charlie Hebdo.
[ad_2]
