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

The National Anti-Terrorist 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 three 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.

For their part, the Tunisian authorities are still investigating to elucidate the circumstances of this attack carried out by a gendarme who killed two of his colleagues and two worshipers in front of a synagogue on the island of Djerba, during the annual Jewish pilgrimage, before being shot. .