Christophe Castaner considers himself the victim of a "political trial". Three days after the bloody knife attack perpetrated by an employee of the Paris police headquarters, which killed four people, the interior minister spoke on Sunday (October 6th) in TF1's 1 pm .

"Obviously, there were flaws," admitted the minister. In the heat of criticism since Thursday, Christophe Castaner has admitted "dysfunctions" in the monitoring of the assailant, but sweeps the idea of ​​a possible resignation.

According to him, the main "dysfunction" was in July 2015, when the assailant, converted to Islam for a decade, would have justified, in front of colleagues, the attack of Charlie Hebdo that had occurred a few months before.

But when a police officer in charge of radicalization had met with colleagues of Mickaël Harpon, they would have decided not to report administrative reporting to their hierarchy. "The malfunction is at that time," said the minister.

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"I am affirmative in the fact that no sign had appeared in the administrative record of the individual that suggests that he could be radicalized.I repeat it to you and I say it alas because if a sign had appeared, can -Would we have avoided this, "added Christophe Castaner, calling for" abandon the political trial "instructed, according to him, by those who claim his resignation, including right and far right.

"The question (of my resignation, Editor's note) does it pose? No," decided Christophe Castaner, who received the support of Édouard Philippe, in the columns of the JDD, where the Prime Minister also announced two missions on the radicalization of counterterrorism agents.

The boss of the presidential party, Stanislas Guerini, on Sunday denounced the "irresponsible" attitude of those who "race the shallot" with the extreme right by asking for the resignation of Christophe Castaner.

Hearing by Parliamentary Intelligence Delegation

Several times weakened since his arrival place Beauvau in the fall of 2018, the minister is however far from being finished with the controversy: he will have to explain himself behind closed doors before the parliamentary delegation to the intelligence, indicated his president, Christian Cambon.

Meanwhile, crucial elements of the investigation remain to be clarified, including the role of the disorderly wife of the killer, in custody since Thursday, and the amount of sensitive information to which the attacker could have access to the prefecture , where he worked since 2003.

"We do not know the information he had access to, so far we have no reason to believe that he was able to transmit information," BFMTV said on Sunday the secretary of state for Interior, Laurent Nuñez. "We need to see clearly as soon as possible on this."

The Secretary of State in any case, "at this stage", rejected the assumption that the attacker could have been part of a jihadist cell.

With AFP