2023-12-06 21:31:00
By LeSiteinfo with MAP
The alleged perpetrator of last Saturday’s attack near the Eiffel Tower, during which a German tourist was stabbed to death and two other people were injured, was indicted on Wednesday for “assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise in a state of legal recidivism,” announced the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT).
Two other charges were brought against him, namely “attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise in a state of legal recidivism” and “terrorist criminal association with a view to preparing one or more crimes of attack to people who are legally repeat offenders,” added the PNAT in a press release.
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a 26-year-old Franco-Iranian, was placed in pre-trial detention under the regime of judicial isolation, said the same source.
The young man is suspected of having killed a German tourist with a knife and injured two other people with a hammer, Saturday evening near the Eiffel Tower, in the 15th arrondissement, before being arrested by the police.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, the alleged attacker, who was known to the intelligence services for his religious radicalization, was sentenced to 4 years in prison in 2016 for a planned attack on La Défense, the business district in the west of Paris. He was monitored by the General Directorate of Internal Security as suffering from “very significant psychiatric disorders” and was under psychiatric and neurological treatment.
Furthermore, the Center for the Analysis of Terrorism (CAT) indicated to Le Figaro that the author of the attack was linked to the assassin of Samuel Paty, a professor killed in 2020 near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine , as well as with the author of the double assassination in June 2016 of two police officers in Magnanville.
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