“ The operating mode is curious with an attacker waiting to be arrested with his papers on him. But the attack has everything of a terrorist act ”. Saturday, April 4, a terrorist specialist described the knife attack that left two dead and five injured earlier in the morning in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme). An attack also described as a " terrorist journey " by the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, who went there.
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It all started on Saturday at 10.50 am with several calls arriving at 17 (emergency police). A 33-year-old Sudanese refugee, Abdallah AO, who lives in the city, has just embarked on a murderous journey on rue Ernest Gally, not far from his home. He first attacked a tobacco shop where, armed with a detent knife, he injured the couple of tobacconists, aged 65 and 49. Taken to task, he then dropped his weapon and went to a butcher shop where he grabbed a knife and fatally injured a client,
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