what we know about the investigation 48 hours after the attack | EUROtoday

(*48*) on : 10/15/2023 – 5:14 p.m.

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Being positioned below surveillance

Mohammed Mogouchkov, 20, was born in Malgobek, in the predominantly Muslim Russian Republic of Ingushetia, in keeping with the administration, and arrived in France in 2008.

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He had no prison report however had been adopted “since the end of July”, in keeping with Gérald Darmanin, by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), because of wiretapping and bodily surveillance measures.

This surveillance was put in place “because there were links” between him and his detained brother, the Minister of the Interior defined on Saturday.

Nine folks nonetheless in police custody

Of the eleven individuals who had been in police custody on Saturday, 9 had been nonetheless in custody on Sunday, at the Anti-Terrorism Sub-Directorate of the Judicial Police (Sdat) and at the DGSI.

Among them, Mohammed Mogouchkov, two brothers of the attacker together with the one incarcerated, his sister born in 2005, his mom, one in every of his uncles and an inmate.

However, two cops had been launched: two Belarusians, “who had nothing to do with the investigation”, AFP discovered from police sources.

Since his arrest on Friday, Mohammed Mogouchkov “has not spoken,” mentioned one in every of these sources. Police custody can last as long as 96 hours.

The writer’s “motivations” “remain to be defined”, Gérald Darmanin mentioned on Saturday, whereas he affirmed on Friday on TF1 that there was “without doubt” a hyperlink with the occasions in the Middle East.

An entourage at the coronary heart of the investigation

“The father and brother had a determining influence, it seems, in the act,” in keeping with a police supply at AFP.

The father of the attacker, on S file and deported in 2018, “was a supporter of radical Islam”, defined the Minister of the Interior.

He is “very probably in Georgia”, a police supply mentioned on Sunday.

His older brother was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment, in 2023, for not having denounced a deliberate attack close to the Presidency of the Republic, of which he was conscious. He was later convicted of advocating terrorism.

The case of one other detainee, additionally in police custody, raises questions amongst investigators. According to Le Parisien, this radicalized prisoner communicated with the attacker on safe networks. According to a supply near the case at AFP, Maxime C. has a “really worrying profile”. During his detentions in several prisons, he was “noted to have an influence on fellow prisoners”.

“No flaws” in keeping with the authorities

There was “no failure by the intelligence services”, affirmed Gérald Darmanin. “Nothing in the elements that we were able to obtain made it possible to predict that this individual (…) could carry out the act,” added Élisabeth Borne in La Tribune Dimanche.

Mohammed Mogouchkov was checked on Thursday, the day earlier than the incident, with out “any offense being held against him”.

This verify was meant to verify “if he did not have weapons on him, but also to carry out more intrusive intelligence techniques and in particular to access his phone and the encrypted messaging on his phone”, in keeping with Gérald Darmanin.

“He probably missed a few hours” to permit investigators to take advantage of these strategies, he mentioned, including that it was nevertheless “not certain” that the writer was speaking on his cellphone earlier than his go to. to the act.

His profile “is therefore similar to a radicalized individual whose potential is known but who suddenly decides to take action, making his neutralization difficult”, in keeping with an intelligence supply.

“The only thing we knew about this person was when he attacked his mother. He was detained for domestic violence,” in keeping with the Minister of the Interior.

The attacker couldn’t legally be deported, having entered France earlier than the age of 13, underlined Gérald Darmanin.

“What more could we do in this case? Should what is unpredictable be expected?” Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti mentioned on Sunday on France Inter.

With AFP