On Friday, a French policewoman was stabbed and killed as she entered police hqs in Rambouillet, some 60 kilometers outside of Paris. The attacker was a 36-year-old Tunisian named Jamel Gorchene, who was immediately shot by police and killed. The below article today in Paris Match gives further details on the killer. It is clear that the motive was jihad. Four additional people are now in custody in connection with the murder.
The below article is translated by Fousesquawk.
Rambouillet attack: A radicalized
assailant with "personality disorders"
Paris Match 25 April 2021 at 16:53
Caption
below photo: Attack committed at Rambouillet 22 April 2021 (Paris Match)
The
profile of the killer of the fatal attack committed Friday at Rambouillet
becomes clearer little by little.
"Several
elements substantiate the tracking of the path of this resident of Rambouillet,
radicalized within a few months," announced the National
Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor, Jean-Francois Richard to the press.
A "rapid search" of the telephone of the attacker, Jamel Gorchene, revealed "that he had, immediately prior to proceeding to the act, consulted videos of religious chants glorifying the martyr and jihad," he stated.
The prosecutor also referred to his posts on Facebook which revealed going back to last fall, "an adherence to an ideology legitimizing violence against those having offended the Prophet."
"A Koran" and "a prayer rug" seized
Thus, "On 24 October 2020, a few days after the murder of Samuel Paty (by an Islamist in the department of Yvelines), the perpetrator joined a campaign of support for the Prophet in the face of offenses allegedly done against him," stressed Mr. Ricard.
"A Koran" and "a prayer rug" were seized in his scooter and his basket. And, shortly before the incident, a video surveillance camera filmed the assailant heading to a "provisional prayer room", without the images confirming that he directly entered it. He was seen re-entering the city center a little more than an hour later.
"If the radicalization of the attacker seems hardly contestable, the presence of certain personality disorders can also be observed," Mr Ricard revealed. In police custody, the father of Jamel Gorneche evoked his son's "rigorous practice of Islam" and "behavioral disorders" observed at home "at the beginning of the year".
He had received two psychiatric consultations at the Rambouillet hospital in February. However, "his condition did not require either hospitalization or treatment," Mr Ricard revealed.
Tunisia, whose collaboration is being solicited by France in this case, has "energetically" condemned the attack in a statement from its embassy. It denounces a "barbaric act (occurring) in the middle of the month of Ramadan, the holy month which invokes, rather, the values of tolerance and brotherhood between individuals."
"We hadn't detected signs of radicalization"
At 14:25, Friday, Jamel Gorchene, "wearing headphones", stabbed Stephanie M., a 49-year-old administrative officer, without weapon or uniform, in the abdomen and throat, in the security area of the police station. According to witnesses, the assailant cried, "Allahu Akbar".
In response, a police brigadier fired two shots at the attacker who refused "to drop the knife" with "a blade of 22 centimeters". Falling to the floor, he threw the knife in the direction of the police officers, according to the prosecutor.
A fifth person, a cousin of Jamel Gorchene, was placed in custody Sunday. His father, who lived with him, a couple who housed him (according to records), and another cousin were already in custody since Friday and Saturday.
The assailant, a delivery driver, was unknown to the intelligence and justice services. But his modus operandi corresponds to recurring appeals from the group Islamic State to attack police.
He "had never been the bearer of threats, we had not detected signs of radicalization," stated the national coordinator of intelligence, Laurent Nuñez, Saturday adding: "This becomes very complicated... to detect this type of profile" common to 8 attacks in France since the killing at the police prefecture of Paris in October 2019.
A bill to strengthen the fight against terrorism
Originally from Msaken, on the east coast of Tunisia, Jamel Gorchene had arrived illegally in France in 2009 and had been regularized ten years later. He had obtained a residency permit in December valid for one year.
Back in Tunisia between February 25 and March 13, he seemed "depressed", a male and a female cousin told Agence France Presse at Masaken. The Rambouillet attack is the 17th Islamic terrorist act committed in France since 2014 against the police, Mr Ricard (stated).
Nine police or military officers are dead, and almost twenty have been injured in these attacks, often committed with a simple knife.
Saturday, Prime Minster Jean Castex met (with) the ministers of Interior, Justice, and the Army and concerned services at Matignon. On Wednesday, the Minister of Interior, Gerald Darmanin, will present to the Council of Ministers a bill in preparation for several weeks to strengthen the fight against terrorism.
An homage will be rendered to Stephanie M. on Monday at 17:30 in front of the Hotel de Ville Rambouillet. At that same hour, the Unite-SGP-Police and FSMI-FO (Federation of Unions of Ministry of Interior) unions have called for police to gather symbolically in front of their building.
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