Arras (AFP) – He denies any terrorist intent but would have been reported as radical Islamist party and would be in Syria: the investigators were trying Saturday to learn more about the heavily armed man who was subdued by passengers Friday an Amsterdam-Paris train, avoiding bloodshed.
The suspect has been formally identified as Ayoub El Khazzani, a Moroccan national reported in February 2014 by the Spanish intelligence services as belonging to the radical Islamist movement says -t-one police source.
His custody in the premises of the French counterterrorism, near Paris, was extended Saturday night. It may last four days.
The man, who turns 26 on September 3, lived in 2013 and until March 2014 in Algeciras, Andalusia (southern Spain), where he was known for drug trafficking, a source of Spanish anti-terrorist services.
More than a year later, May 10, 2015, it was located in Berlin, where he embarked for Turkey, according French intelligence, which would then learned of the Spaniards that this man was installed in Belgium.
According Madrid, the suspect would actually left France to go to Syria and would then be returned to the Hexagon, but the Spanish services say not having informed France because “they did not know it at the time”
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On Friday, the man is mounted in the Thalys 9364 in Brussels. Armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle with nine chargers, automatic Luger pistol and a knife, he opened fire at 17:50, shortly after crossing the French border.
French first traveler, aged 28 and employed in a bank in the Netherlands, tried to disarm him as he came out of the toilet. The suspect managed to escape and several shots were fired him, a ball hitting a passenger, Franco-American nationality.
This man of fifty years has “removed the Kalashnikov hands of the aggressor, “and” was shot by a handgun, “he told the head of the Lille University Hospital’s emergency, Patrick Goldstein, who said he was” speechless with admiration “to the patient” exceptional “.
Many Americans, including two soldiers and one British, managed to disarm the suspect. The courage of these men, one of whom was wounded, was hailed by President Barack Obama and Francois Hollande who expects to receive them soon at the Elysee.
“We heard a shot and broken glass. I saw a guy with an AK (Kalashnikov), “told Alek Skarlatos, 22 years. “My friend (Spencer Stone, another US military) and I were stooped, and then we said let’s go + + (…) He was hit in the head until he lost knowledge. “
In the scuffle, Mr. Stone was shot in the neck and cutter by hand by the attacker, who has not made use of his Kalashnikov, presumably halted.
Chris Norman, a British sexagenarian who helped the Americans, did not sleep the night “begins to realize” what they have escaped. “Now I just want to go home,” he told
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On film images to mobile phone on the train, the attacker can see a thin young man, shirtless, wrestled to the ground on his stomach with his hands tied behind his back. Blood was visible on a window of the car.
Slightly injured by operating the alarm signal, the actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who was on the train, blamed the agents of Thalys s being locked in the car driving and refusing to open to passengers.
Thalys has provided support in response to the agent in question, and the boss of the SNCF, Guillaume Pepy, will meet the actor.
The terrorism prosecutor of Paris, whose jurisdiction is national, took up the investigation. The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office also opened an investigation to terrorism. Belgium has stepped up security at railway stations and trains. SNCF will it establish “a national issue of reporting of abnormal situations”.
This new attack comes eight months after the bloody attacks in January against Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and supermarket hide from Paris.
Since then, several attempts to jihadist attacks were he seems foiled in France.
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