France: Attacker watched Jihad movies earlier than stabbing policewoman

According to France’s chief anti-terrorism prosecutor, the Tunisian migrant who murdered a policewoman in France final week was radicalized into Islamic terrorism, on high of dealing with psychological well being points.
The Islamist attacker, who has now been recognized as 36-year-old Jamel Gorchene, fatally stabbed a 49-year previous, mom of two, feminine police worker in Rambouillet, a Paris suburb, final Friday. The attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar” i.e. God is nice in Arabic, in the course of the stabbing. He was later shot and killed by a police officer after refusing to drop his knife.
Jean-Francois Ricard, France’s first prosecutor of the National Terrorism Prosecution Office, informed media shops that the attacker’s “radicalization hardly appears in doubt,” and that he suffered from “certain personality disorders.” Gorchene’s father informed the prosecutor that his son had adopted a ‘rigorous practice of Islam’.
“On the other hand, he also said that he (Gorchene’s father) had noticed behavioral troubles since the beginning of this year,” the prosecutor added. Gorchene embraced “an ideology that legitimizes violence against those who offend the prophet,” the prosecutor Ricard stated.
According to the investigators, Gorchene watched a number of movies of songs praising jihadist fighters and glorifying Jihad on his telephone moments earlier than the assault. A Koran and a prayer rug had been present in his scooter afterwards, Ricard stated.
Jamel Gorchene was initially an unlawful immigrant who arrived in France illegally in 2009. However, simply final yr, Gorchene had acquired his French residency allow, and he had visited his household in Tunisia simply final month.
Five individuals, together with Gorchene’s cousin, have been detained in relation to the ugly crime.
France has confronted a wave of Islamist terror assaults since not less than 2014, which has resulted in additional than 250 casualties. Some notable ones embrace the Charlie Hebdo capturing, the 2016 Islamic State Nice truck assault leading to 86 deaths, Samuel Paty’s homicide final yr, and many others.
French President Emmanuel Macron met with the sufferer’s husband and stated that France is not going to quit its battle in opposition to Islamic terrorism.