The author of the attack who killed a young German-Filipino tourist and injured two other people on Saturday evening, December 2 in Paris, near the Eiffel Tower, had recorded a video before taking the act in which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, declared the anti-terrorism public prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, on Sunday. The attacker’s mother had expressed her concern at the end of October. Darmanin demands that the authorities be able to “ request a care order »
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Speaking in Arabic in this video, Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a 26-year-old Franco-Iranian, brought “ its support for jihadists operating in different areas », declared Jean-François Ricard at a press conference. “ This video was notably posted online on his X account (ex-Twitter) », opened at the beginning of October and which included “ numerous publications on Hamas, Gaza and more generally Palestine », According to the magistrate.
The mother of the attacker, a 26-year-old Franco-Iranian, told the authorities that she was worried about her son who “ withdrew into himself », Reported Jean-François Ricard at a press conference.
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab was listed for Islamist radicalization after being sentenced to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy to prepare an act of terrorism, following a planned violent action in 2016 in the neighborhood business office of La Défense, in the west of Paris.
The 26-year-old man, born in Neuilly (Hauts-de-Seine) in 1997, presented with psychiatric disorders, the prosecutor also declared to the press. An investigation was opened by the leaders “ assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise, attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise and terrorist criminal association with a view to preparing crimes of personal injury “, he also clarified.
The investigations were entrusted to the Paris judicial police and the General Directorate of Internal Security.
The first investigations revealed that the perpetrator had recorded a video before committing the act. (…) During this video, he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. He provided support to jihadists operating in different areas.
Jean-François Ricard, anti-terrorism prosecutor
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Darmanin demands that the authorities can “request an injunction for care”
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin demanded on Sunday evening that the authorities “ can request an injunction for care » for a radicalized person monitored for psychiatric disorders in order to prevent acts like that of the attacker of the Bir Hakeim bridge. “ What undoubtedly needs to change – we saw this around the Prime Minister (Elisabeth Borne) – is that the public authorities, the prefects, the police can request, demand an order for care, which does not is not the case today “, he continued.
The attacker is an adherent of radical Islam and he is psychiatrically ill. He had stopped treatment at the request of certain doctors “, declared Mr. Darmanin. The Minister of the Interior spoke on TF1 after a meeting in Matignon devoted to security.
Emphasizing that the “ police officers were not doctors “, he argued that they had ” to manage people with psychotic disorders and adherents to radical Islam “. The minister insisted that France was “dpermanently under the influence of the radical Islamist threat “. “We must have an extremely firm criminal response,” he added.
This stabbing attack has global repercussions. First of all, the place, near the Eiffel Tower, known all over the world and symbol of France. This attack took place in Paris less than a year before the Olympic Games. And finally, because of the nationality of the victim and the injured. A young German-Filipino tourist killed and a British tourist injured in the eye by a hammer.
France is permanently under the influence of the Islamist terrorist threat. We must become aware of this and we must fight very hard against radical Islam, provide resources to our police officers, have an extremely firm criminal response…
Gérald Darmanin, French Minister of the Interior
Executive under pressure
The government therefore finds itself under more pressure than ever to counter the terrorist threat. At the request of the President of the Republic, Elisabeth Borne held a security meeting at the end of the day this Sunday. Were summoned the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti, the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau, the government spokesperson Olivier Véran and the Minister of the Interior.
Gérald Darmanin, on the front line after this new terrorist attack, believes that there was no fault in the monitoring of the attacker by the anti-terrorist services. The right and far right were quick to react. Traveling to Florence, the president of the RN proposed reopening the debate on security detention in France.
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