After the attack, this Saturday morning, of a Sudanese refugee who killed two people and wounded four others in the center of Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme), the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office "decided to take up these facts" . He opened "an investigation of the counts of assassinations and attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise and association of criminal criminal criminals" .
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The man was arrested at 11 a.m. while he was kneeling on a sidewalk praying.
The first investigations have revealed "a murderous course determined to seriously disturb public order by intimidation or terror, " reported the prosecution in a statement.
In addition, during the search carried out at his home, " handwritten documents with a religious connotation in which the author of the lines complained in particular of living in a country of disbelievers " were found, reports the prosecution again.
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