the French anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for “assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise”

The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) has opened an investigation in Paris into the death of a 41-year-old Franco-Tunisian in an attack on Tuesday evening in front of the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba (Tunisia), which left four other dead. , according to a statement released Thursday, May 11.

The Pnat, competent because of the French nationality of one of the victims, opened on Wednesday “An investigation of the assassination chief in relation to a terrorist enterprise. The investigations have been entrusted to the General Directorate of Homeland Security”clarifies the text.

The attack, which took place as hundreds of worshipers were completing the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue, left five dead: three gendarmes and two worshippers, an Israeli-Tunisian and a Franco-Tunisian, killed outside the synagogue by the assailant’s shots. Tunisian side, “a preliminary criminal investigation has been opened”said the spokesman for the court of Medenine (south-east), on which the island of Djerba depends.