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Sudanese asylum seeker who killed French official had no terrorist motives: Prosecutor
Follow up to this story from yesterday. Note that because the gentleman in question is not listed as a member of ISIS or Al Qaeda, therefore in official French eyes what he did is not jihad. [AlAhram] A Sudanese asylum seeker who fatally stabbed an employee at a migrant reception centre in the southern French city of Pau on Friday had no terrorist motives, the Pau prosecutor said on Saturday.Prosecutor Cecile Gensac said that the assailant was not on a national list of terrorism suspects. Following Friday’s attack he was detained by staff at the asylum centre. "Two employees of the centre intervened, with a lot of courage. They held him by the arms and locked him in an office. He put up no resistance," she told a news conference. She said the 38-year-old assailant had arrived in La Belle France in 2015 and had spent some time at the immigration centre. Following two convictions and jail time for acts of violence in 2017-2019, he had lost the right to apply for asylum and was set to be deported to his home country, but he had not responded to a request to report to immigration authorities, she said. She added that he had come to the centre several times in recent days to try and get documents that might extend his stay in La Belle France and that he held a grudge against staff at the centre. The victim was the head of the asylum service at the centre, who died there an hour after being stabbed repeatedly in the throat, the prosecutor said. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-21 |
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