The custody of Youssef T., the man who violently struck three police officers on Monday in Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), was extended Wednesday afternoon, we learned from a judicial source.
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The 29-year-old suspect was taken into custody immediately after the fact. In terrorist matters, police custody can last up to 96 hours. Monday, "around 5.15-5.15pm", Youssef T., aboard a BMW, crashed onto a roadside control device in Colombes, striking violently and seriously injuring the legs of two national police officers and, more slightly, a municipal police.
A letter of allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group and a knife were found in his car and the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office (Pnat) seized the facts on Tuesday after a psychiatric examination of the suspect ruled out any abolition or impaired discernment. "I pledge allegiance to Abu Walid al-Sahraoui, the new emir of ISIS and a worthy heir to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi," he proclaimed in this letter, according to a source familiar with the matter.
According to a press release from Pnat, he explained that he was going "head on in the battle to impose sharia on the whole earth". Adnane Abou Walid al-Sahraoui is the head of the Islamic State of the Grand Sahara (EIGS) group, active mainly in the Ménaka region, in north-eastern Mali, and across the border with Niger. . In January, Emmanuel Macron declared that IS was now the "priority enemy" in the Sahel, before groups grouped under the banner of Al Qaeda. Youssef T. was "not on file S" for radicalization, according to the Pnat which opened an investigation for "attempted assassinations on persons responsible for public authority in relation to a terrorist enterprise" and "criminal criminal criminals association "
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Known for "old common law facts" , he had been the subject of a call to law for contempt of agent in 2014, Nanterre prosecutor Catherine Denis, who carried out the first investigations, told AFP , before the referral to the Pnat. While photos of the suspect in police custody were posted on social networks, his lawyer told AFP to file a complaint for violation of the secrecy of the investigation, the right to presumption of innocence and the right to respect of privacy.
