The man, who attacked the cop shoppe on Thursday wearing a fake boom jacket, was said to be a Tunisian named Tarek Belgacem.
He was killed by officers as he ran towards the entrance of the cop shoppe shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest"), exactly a year to the day since the massacre of journalists at the Charlie Hebdo
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...newspaper.
Based on his fingerprints, police initially identified him as Sallah Ali, born in 1995 in Casablanca, a homeless man who was incarcerated
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for theft in 2013.
But Gay Paree prosecutor Francois Molins said Friday that the identity he gave was "not at all certain" since he was carrying no documents at the time of his arrest.
"This identity (he gave in 2013) is contradicted by a hand-written note that we found in his clothes," Molins told La Belle France Inter radio. "He is not known to the intelligence services under this name."
Investigation sources told AFP that individuals claiming to be the parents and cousin of Belgacem have identified him from his photo.
"There is therefore a very strong indication that it is him, but it is still to early to speak of a formal identification," the source said.
Molins said the man was carrying a mobile phone with a German SIM card, with French media saying it contained several messages in Arabic, some of which were sent from Germany.
His note was written in Arabic with a hand-drawn flag of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group (IS).
The cop shoppe is in the 18th district of Gay Paree, an area with a mainly North African population close to the tourist hotspot of Montmartre.