Researchers sought Friday to clarify the mystery of the identity of the author of the jihadist attack on a police station in Paris shot by police.
Fingerprints match those of a man arrested in 2013 for a robbery case in southern France he told police called Ali Sallah, being born in 1995 in Casablanca (Morocco) and resided in Germany and Italy.
But the handwritten claim he had on Thursday, in which a flag drawn figure of jihadist Islamic State (EI), is signed by another name. Moreover, it "does not claim to be Tunisian and Moroccan," said Friday the Paris prosecutor Francois Molins.
"I'm not at all sure that the identity he gave it real (...) is not signed by that name by the intelligence services," said Molins. We will have to "determine the identity" and analyze "found a phone and provided with a German card," he said.
Armed with a butcher knife and a fake explosives belt, the aggressor was presented on Thursday morning at a police station in a popular district of northern Paris, he hoisted the gun and shouted "Allah is the greatest." The agents opened fire and killed him.
The attack occurred on the day that marked one year of jihadist attack that decimated the drafting of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
In his claim in Arabic, the man declared his allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of EI, as a source close to the investigation, which was in charge of counter-prosecution source. In that role, explained his act as revenge for the "attacks on Syria," the report said.
- 'No link' to violent radicalization 'Yet "what appears very clearly on what is known of that person" is that "has no link with violent radicalization," said Thursday the French Minister of Justice, Christiane Taubira.
The prosecutor Molins said, meanwhile, the "manifold" nature of the threat, with "events organized logistics and coordination important" while "people who takes action in isolation, psychological imbalance bottom or just because they want to apply the slogan of permanent murder. "
The police station was attacked in the popular neighborhood of the Goutte d'Or, multiethnic area north of Paris, in the 18th district This sector, like the business district of La Defense, was mentioned as a potential target for jihadists the November 13 attacks committed against the Stade de France, restaurants east of the capital and the Bataclan concert hall.
These attacks, the worst suffered by France, caused 130 dead and hundreds injured.
On Thursday morning, François Hollande spoke of the need to further strengthen security measures against the threat of jihadist attacks.
"The gravity of the threat requires further increase" security, he said in his New to state security forces Year.
The November 2015 attacks carried François Hollande to declare a state of emergency.
The president confirmed Thursday that it is preparing a new bill to strengthen security.
Among the measures included in the text, he mentioned the relaxation of rules that frame identity checks, searches of persons and vehicles and the raids and house arrest for radicalized youth returning from Syria and Iraq.
On January 7, 2015, the brothers Kouachi Said Cherif and killed 12 people in drafting Charlie Hebdo. In the following days, Amedy Coulibaly, linked with them, killed a police officer and made a hostage in a kosher supermarket, which killed four people. Among the 17 killed in the attacks including three policemen.
This week, Hollande opened three plaques in memory of the victims and a fourth will be unveiled on Saturday.
The celebrations end on Sunday with a demonstration in the square of the Republic.