- Judicial information of the heads of “assassinations and attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise” targeting Abdallah Ahmed-Osman was opened by the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office.
- The 33-year-old Sudanese refugee seems, according to "initial investigations", to have "acted alone, without having been sponsored by a terrorist organization. "
The investigations into the knife attack on Saturday in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme), which left two dead, were entrusted to investigating judges, the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office (PNAT) announced on Wednesday.
The PNAT "decided to open a judicial investigation into the counts of assassinations and attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise" targeting Abdallah Ahmed-Osman, a 33-year-old Sudanese refugee.
The first investigations tend to demonstrate that he would have acted alone, "without having been sponsored by a terrorist organization", details the PNAT which announces that "the defendant will be presented", today, to an anti-terrorist investigating judge in order to be indicted ”. "The PNAT will take requisitions for provisional detention against him," added the same source.
A second police custody lifted
As part of the investigation, a second police custody, that of a 28-year-old Sudanese refugee, was lifted, the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) said on Wednesday. The man, whose home in Valence was the subject of a search, was transferred Monday to the premises of anti-terrorism in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine), with the assailant, Abdallah Ahmed -Osman, to continue their police custody started on Saturday. This relative is not subject to prosecution. The custody of a third Sudanese man, who lived in the same home as the assailant and was arrested on Saturday evening, was lifted on Monday, without being prosecuted.
Armed with a knife, Abdallah Ahmed-Osman attacked passers-by on the street on Saturday and people in a tobacco shop, a butcher's shop and a bakery. He killed two and injured five others. Among the five injured, three were operated on. The most seriously affected was in stable condition Monday evening and the other four are "out of the woods", although two of them remain under observation.
The national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office opened an investigation on Saturday, in particular for "assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and "criminal criminal criminal association". The investigations were entrusted to the Counter-Terrorism Sub-Directorate of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police, which coordinates the investigation, as well as to the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police and the General Directorate of Internal Security.
" Ill at ease "
According to a source close to the investigation, Abdallah Ahmed-Osman affirmed in police custody "not to remember what happened". Likewise, confirming information from francetvinfo, he told investigators that he felt "bad about himself", "spied on", and "could not tolerate confinement and his technical unemployment" while he was employed in leather goods.
During a search of his home, were found "handwritten documents with religious overtones in which the author of the lines complains in particular of living in a country of disbelievers", according to Pnat, "a priori" written by him. Six phones, including five old unusable devices, were also seized. An initial appraisal of the sixth, which he was currently using, did not find any salient element for the investigation, said a source close to the file.
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