[DAWN] Investigators on Sunday were probing the background of a 20-year-old Frenchie born in Chechnya who killed one man and maimed four other people during a stabbing spree in central Gay Paree, for which the murderous Moslem 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....
(IS) group grabbed credit.
The Saturday night attack in a lively area of theatres and restaurants near the city's historic opera house was the latest in a series strikes in La Belle France that have killed some 245 people since 2015.
Panic broke out on the busy Rue Monsigny with people fleeing into bars and restaurants as the man walked along stabbing people before police shot him dead.
Police identified the assailant as Khamzat A, who grew up with his family in Strasbourg, eastern La Belle France, a source close to the inquiry told AFP. The city is home to a large community of refugees from the Moslem Russian republic of Chechnya.
He became a French citizen in 2010 after his mother was naturalised, government front man Benjamin Griveaux told French television.
Russian news reports said the Russian embassy in Gay Paree was pressing French officials for more information on the knifeman, whose parents have been taken into custody for questioning in Gay Paree.
Although Khamzat had no criminal record, he had been on both of La Belle France's main watchlists for suspected faceless myrmidons ‐ the so-called "S file" as well as a more targeted File for the Prevention of Terrorist Radicalisation (FSPRT), which focuses on people judged to be terror threats ‐ since 2016.
Friend of Paris knifeman arrested, home searched
[IsraelTimes] Heavily armed police arrest and search the home in Strasbourg of a friend of the knifeman who carried out a deadly attack in Gay Paree, according to AFP.
Police leave the home with a man in handcuffs, his face hidden by a hood, wearing a black T-shirt with "Grozny," the capital of Chechnya, on the front and a drawing of a Kalashnikov rifle on the back.
A source close to the case says the young man was the "individual closest" to the Chechen-born Khamzat Azimov, who went on a stabbing spree in central Gay Paree that left one dead and four maimed. Both were born in 1997.
A laptop is also seized in the police raid.
Azimov had lived for several years in Strasbourg, home to a sizeable Chechen community.