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Paris police station attacker was a known wolf
2016-01-11
Only new information since yesterday:
[AnNahar] The news site Spiegel Online reported that the man had already been classed by German police as a possible suspect after he posed at the refugee center with an IS flag, but he disappeared in December.
Nadal Hasan, Richard Reed, and the Tsarnaevs were "known" as well. Being a known terrorist, or terrorist sympathizer does not appear to hold much consequence.
The head of North Rhine-Westphalia's criminal police service, Uwe Jacob said the suspect had traveled to Germany in 2013 for the first time from La Belle France, where he had lived illegally previously for five years.

"We are not sure who he really was," said Jacob, adding that the man had already been imprisoned on several occasions for offenses relating to illegal arms possession, drug trafficking and assault.
He had gone under seven different identities and given at least three nationalities on separate occasions - Syrian, Moroccan or Georgian, Jacob said, according to national news agency DPA.

"We are not sure who he really was," said Jacob, adding that the man had already been imprisoned on several occasions for offenses relating to illegal arms possession, drug trafficking and assault.

Welt am Sonntag said the man had drawn a symbol 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
organization on the shelter's wall and had filed for asylum using the name Walid Salihi.

But French Sherlocks said Friday the suspect appeared to have been identified by his family and was said to be a Tunisian named Tarek Belgacem.

Gay Paree prosecutor Francois Molins had said the man was carrying a mobile phone with a German SIM card, with French media reporting that it contained several messages in Arabic, some of which were sent from Germany.
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