A horror scene behind the armored glass of a police station airlock.
Friday, in Rambouillet, Stéphanie M., administrative assistant of the national police force aged 49 and mother of a family, fell under the blows of Jamel G., a Tunisian returned illegally to France in 2009 and regularized in 2019. The controversy over illegal immigration as a privileged vector of Islamist terrorism continues to swell as the investigation traces the murderous drift in which this 36-year-old man, originally from M'Saken, in Tunisia, has embarked. .
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Between Friday and Sunday morning, five people were taken into police custody: the assassin's father, who lives in Rambouillet, the couple with whom he is administratively domiciled, in Thiais, in Val-de-Marne, and two cousins.
For Jean-François Ricard, the unfolding of the facts and the modus operandi - attacking the police -
"make
radicalization hardly questionable"
by Jamel G. And
"the presence of certain personality disorders that have been observed"
does not change anything.
As the magistrate recalled during a press conference given at the end of the morning on Sunday, when this individual had benefited from a psychiatric consultation on February 23,
"his condition did not require hospitalization or treatment"
.
The national counterterrorism prosecutor then resumed, minute by minute, the course of the killer.
The man appeared on Rambouillet surveillance cameras at 12:48 pm He was spotted a minute later
"getting off his scooter in front of a temporary prayer room in the city, without anyone knowing if he entered it." ",
specifies the prosecutor.
His act was premeditated, as evidenced by his sightings in front of the police station from 2:19 p.m. At 2:23 p.m., the policewoman, in civilian clothes and unarmed, entered the security chamber into which the murderer rushed after her. .
Two minutes later, gripped by the jihadist's arm and pressed against the second glass of the airlock, she received two stab wounds, one in the abdomen, the other in the throat.
The weapon, which measures in all 32 cm, has a 22 cm blade.
While a police sergeant manages to open the airlock and fire on Jamel G, the latter has time, before collapsing, to throw the knife in the direction of the police officers, shouting "Allah akbar".
In the shopping bag at his feet and in the trunk of his scooter, we will find a prayer rug and a Koran.
"Difficult to detect"
As the national anti-terrorism prosecutor clarified, two minutes before committing the irreparable, the man had taken care to put headphones on his ears.
The phone found there revealed that he had viewed
“videos of religious songs glorifying martyrdom and jihad”.
During the search of his home, investigators found broken phones and an SD card corroborating the premeditation.
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"The attack of Rambouillet is a collateral damage of the bankruptcy of the immigration policy"
However, Jamel G
"was unknown to all the intelligence services and his criminal record does not show any conviction",
reminded the prosecutor. An expert recalls that,
"faced with these profiles more difficult to detect, the report, in particular via the toll-free number devoted to reports of jihadist radicalization, can be decisive".
Before Samuel Paty's beheading, relatives of the terrorist Anzorov did not report his case, while, worried, they looked at his cell phone, at night and without his knowledge, to see which sites he consulted and which contacts he had. According to his relatives, Jamel G. had adopted a rigorous practice of Islam since the beginning of the year. According to information sent to
Figaro
, in police custody, his father allegedly affirmed that after noting the psychological state of his son he had sent him to Tunisia to be
"unenchanted"
.
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“The content of the Facebook publication has made it possible to observe an evolution of the messages published by Jamel G. Initially focused solely on religion, these publications reveal, from the fall of 2020, an adherence to an ideology legitimizing violence against those who have offended the prophet. On October 24, he joined a campaign of support in the face of offenses against him, ”
detailed Jean-François Ricard, who specifies that the investigation is also continuing to find any
“ accomplices, co-authors or inspirers ”
of this delivery driver remained in an irregular situation for ten years before receiving, last December, an exceptional one-year residence permit.
In October, in the wake of the attack against Samuel Paty, Gérald Darmanin had promised to expel 231 illegal aliens registered in the file of reports for the prevention of terrorist radicalization. But this device does not concern cases similar to Jamel G, converted so quickly to "atmosphere jihadism".