2023-10-24 06:22:00
Both Tunisians, they are aged in their forties and fifties, added sources close to the case.
The man in his forties, who “has lived in France for almost twenty years”, “formally contests” the accusations, assured his counsel to AFP.
“He has nothing to do with the attack,” said Souleymen Rakrouki. The attacker “is a friend he had known for a long time, from whom he had not seen any sign of radicalization. He might never have imagined such an act,” he insisted.
When contacted, the fifty-year-old’s advisors, Pierre-Henri Baert and Louise Hennon, did not wish to comment.
According to the Pnat, investigations “are continuing to clarify their links” with Abdesalem Lassoued, a radicalized 45-year-old Tunisian, who killed two Swedes when they came to support their national football team in Belgium.
The assailant, who had been the subject of an extradition request from Tunisia for more than a year, was shot dead on October 17 by Belgian police.
In Paris, an investigation was opened on October 17, following information “transmitted by the Belgian judicial authorities”, said the Pnat.
Four people “likely to be linked to the author of the attack” were arrested Thursday in Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire and the Paris region, added Pnat. Of the four, two police custody was lifted.
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