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‘Tunisian attacker watched jihadist videos’

‘Tunisian attacker watched jihadist videos’

THE Tunisian national who killed a police administrative worker last near Paris had watched religious videos glorifying acts of jihad just before carrying out his attack, said France's anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard. The murder has shocked France, which faces a presidential election next year at which issues such as fears over terrorist attacks, immigration and violent crime will dominate the agenda. Ricard told a news conference on Sunday that the official investigation had shown that the assailant, identified as "Jamel G", looked at the videos on his phone just before his knife attack on the police worker, a mother-of-two called…
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Tunisian kills two near Paris

Tunisian kills two near Paris

GONZALO FUENTES and ANTOY PAONE A Tunisian national was shot dead after he fatally stabbed a female police administrative worker yesterday at the entrance to a police station in Rambouillet, a middle-class commuter town outside Paris. Paris region president Valerie Pecresse said that terrorism could not be ruled out as a motive. Another official said separately that France's anti-terror prosecutor had not yet decided to lead the investigation. The woman was knifed in the throat, two security sources said. "France has lost one its everyday heroines in a barbaric gesture of infinite cowardice," Prime Minister Jean Castex said on the…
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