The 36-year-old Tunisian national who killed with two stab wounds on Friday a police officer at the Rambouillet police station had "
not been detected
" as "
carrying threats
", said the national intelligence coordinator Laurent Nuñez on Saturday.
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The assailant Jamel G. - killed by gunfire from a police officer after his attack - "
had not been the bearer of threats, we had not detected signs of radicalization
" about him, developed on BFMTV Laurent Nuñez .
He is one of those "
individuals unknown to the intelligence services, who are very isolated, have no relationship with other individuals that would make them detectable,
" he added.
"
The signs of radicalization that they show are very weak
", he insisted, estimating that "
to (his) knowledge there was no breach of the intelligence services
".
35 attacks foiled since 2017
"
It becomes very complicated (...) to detect this kind of profile
" common to the "
eight
terrorist
attacks
" committed in France since the killing of the Paris police headquarters in October 2019, underlined the former secretary of state. at the Ministry of the Interior. On October 3, 2019, an employee stabbed three police officers and an administrative agent, before being shot dead, in the police headquarters in the capital.
Since 2017, the intelligence and counterterrorism services have foiled “
35 attacks
” on French soil, said Laurent Nuñez. Jamel G., who arrived illegally from Tunisia in France in 2009 had been regularized in 2019 and held a residence permit valid until December. He was unknown to the police, intelligence and justice services.