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Louvre attacker refuses to speak to investigators
[OMANTRIBUNE] The machete-wielding attacker, who was shot by a soldier outside La Belle France’s Louvre museum, refused to answer Sherlocks on Sunday after being formally placed into custody at a hospital, a source at the Gay Paree prosecutor’s office said.Abdullah Reda Al Hamahmy, an Egyptian, was shot several times on Friday after attacking soldiers as he cried "Allahu Akbar" in what French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... described as a terrorist attack. "The first interview took place this morning, but it turned out to be a short one. For the moment, he refuses to talk to Sherlocks," the source at the prosecutor’s office said. Hamahmy’s father said it was "nonsense" to suggest his son was a terrorist, saying that the youngest of four children was a law graduate who had been working in the United Arab Emirates for about five years and was in Gay Paree on business. The 29-year-old arrived in La Belle France on January 26 after obtaining a tourist visa in Dubai. Egyptian security officials have not said whether he had any known links to krazed killer groups. Hours before the Louvre attack, an entry on Hamahmy’s Twitter account was posted reading: The incident underlined the krazed killer threat facing La Belle France, which is still under a state of emergency as presidential elections loom following a series of attacks over the past two years that have killed more than 230 people. Hamahmy’s father, Reda Al Refaai, in an interview on Saturday accused French officials of fabricating the allegations against his son to excuse the force used to stop him. Asked if his son had shown any krazed killer tendencies, the retired police major general said: "If he had I would have thrown him out of the house." French Sherlocks are hunting for clues to establish whether he acted alone, on impulse, or on orders from someone. He attacked troops checking bags near the museum’s shopping mall with a machete in each hand, wounding one soldier. Hamahmy’s father said he last spoke to his son a few hours before the attack and that they had discussed what colour hat Hamahmy should buy to protect him against the cold weather of Gay Paree. Posted by: Fred 2017-02-06 |
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