VIDEO – The prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for “assassination attempt because of religion” and “advocating terrorism” following the assault of a teacher with a machete by a young Turk would have radicalized online. Francois Hollande speaks of acts “unspeakable and unjustifiable”.
The prosecutor of Marseilles on Monday opened an investigation for “attempted murder on account of the religion “and” advocating terrorism “following an attack on a Jewish teacher of Hebrew school in Marseille. The prosecutor of Marseilles said during a press conference that the perpetrator of Turkish nationality and aged 16 Kurdish origin was claimed by the Islamic State. “He said he had done so in the name of Allah, the Islamic State (EI), repeating several times that it acted on behalf of Daech” said Brice Robin.
Following his arrest by the police, the boy began to evoke Allah and said that if he came out of the police station, “it would obtain a firearm and kill police officers. ” The teenager, who has all his mental faculties according to the prosecutor, the police claimed openly anti-Semitic nature of the attack. A search was held today at his home near the site of the attack. Unknown intelligence services, high school student is a good student with no criminal record. His family told the police not to have noticed his radicalization that occurred “over the Internet”. The prosecutor of Marseilles should require his indictment.
The victim, a teacher at the Hebrew Franco Source Institute, was wearing a yarmulke and was returning to the establishment of the ninth district around 9 am on Monday morning when the attack occurred. The teenager with a machete in dull blade then attacked the man in the back of the shoulder and the forearm. The victim is protected with its religious book.
This is one of the witnesses at the scene who contacted police. The latter managed to call the young man who fled leaving the gun there. A ceramic knife with a 20 centimeter blade was also found on him. “He said that the knife was reserved for assaulting the police,” says Brice Robin. The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) put on his Facebook page a picture of what would be the machete found at the scene of the assault. The President of CRIF, Roger Cukierman, said he was “shocked” and says: “We are appalled to see that there are so many acts of this extremely serious nature”
The head of. State spoke acts “unspeakable and unjustifiable.” Francois Hollande has sent its full support to the victim and his family and assured the mobilization of public authorities to act with the greatest firmness against anti-Semitism and racism.
The Prefect of Bouches-du Rhône Laurent Nuñez went outside the hotel to view the entire “solidarity” of the state and its “determination to ensure the protection of sites” including Jewish schools that already have static guards at the entrance and at the exit of students.
The Prime Minister Manuel Valls said he was “disgusted” by the anti-Semitic assault and advocates the “instransigeance against those who prey on our republican unity”.
The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve denounced an “outrageous anti-Semitic aggression.” “Support for the victim of the appalling Marseille Semitic aggression,” Cazeneuve wrote on his Twitter account, adding that an investigation is “ongoing under the authority of Justice.”
In November already, a Jewish teacher of the thirteenth district of the city was also assaulted with a knife by three men claiming the Islamic State.
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