The custody of Franco-Iranian Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab continues on Tuesday December 5, three days after the knife attack which left one dead and two injured in Paris near the Eiffel Tower. Another person from his entourage is also still in police custody, while that of the author’s parents has been lifted, according to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office. Follow our live stream.
The suspect says he acted “in response to the persecution of Muslims around the world”. While in police custody, the assailant also explained that he would have wanted “to die a martyr”Franceinfo learned from a source close to the investigation on Monday, December 4.
An investigation opened in Germany. The German federal prosecutor’s office announced on Monday December 4 that it had opened an investigation into this attack. The procedure, justified by the German nationality of the victim, will take place in parallel with the investigation entrusted in France to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office. On Sunday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was “upset” by this attack.
“There was clearly a psychiatric failure”according to Gérald Darmanin. Asked about the profile of Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, suspected of being the author of the knife attack near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday, the Minister of the Interior affirmed on BFMTV Monday morning that the mother of the suspect had not accepted the hospitalization proposal made by the DGSI, which “had proposed hospitalization by third party”.