French police seek identity of fake suicide vest attacker

AFP, PARIS: French anti-terror investigators were on Friday seeking to identify a man shot dead while trying to storm a Paris police station brandishing a meat cleaver and wearing a fake suicide vest. The man was shot dead by officers as he ran towards the entrance of the police station waving the meat cleaver and shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) on Thursday, exactly a year to the day since the massacre of journalists at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper. Based on his fingerprints, police initially identified him as Sallah Ali, born in 1995 in Casablanca, a homeless man who was arrested for theft in 2013. But Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Friday that the identity was “not at all certain” since he was carrying no documents at the time of his arrest.

 

 

French police seek identity of fake suicide vest attacker

AFP, PARIS: French anti-terror investigators were on Friday seeking to identify a man shot dead while trying to storm a Paris police station brandishing a meat cleaver and wearing a fake suicide vest. The man was shot dead by officers as he ran towards the entrance of the police station waving the meat cleaver and shouting Allahu Akbar (God is greatest) on Thursday, exactly a year to the day since the massacre of journalists at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper. Based on his fingerprints, police initially identified him as Sallah Ali, born in 1995 in Casablanca, a homeless man who was arrested for theft in 2013. But Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Friday that the identity was not at all certain since he was carrying no documents at the time of his arrest.