Nine police custody are underway this Sunday in the investigation of the chopper attack Friday in Paris which thought to target Charlie Hebdo and left two seriously injured.
Police custody was lifted late Saturday afternoon, that of a “former roommate”, in Cergy (Val-d’Oise), the main suspect who presents himself as Hassan A., aged 18 and born in Pakistan. But a new person was taken into custody on Sunday. She “lived at the home of Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis) of the main suspect but had not yet been arrested,” said a judicial source.
Nine police custody are therefore in progress: the main suspect, six former roommates of his apartment in Pantin, his little brother and an acquaintance.
The custody of the main suspect was also extended by 48 hours by a judge of liberties and detention on Sunday. Those of his little brother and a person appearing in his friendly entourage, started late Saturday afternoon, have also been extended by 24 hours.
A video being authenticated
As early as Friday evening, a man initially considered suspect and placed in police custody, “Youssef”, a 33-year-old Algerian, was released. The man, a “hero” according to his lawyer, had actually tried to stop the attacker with a knife, which the investigation corroborated.
The main suspect in the attack outside the former Charlie Hebdo premises “took responsibility” on Saturday, acknowledging that he was targeting the satirical weekly which recently republished cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, according to sources familiar with the investigation. The suspect believed that the premises targeted were still those of Charlie Hebdo, according to the same source.
According to BFMTV, he claimed responsibility for his action in a video found by investigators.
This video is in the process of being authenticated: “We see him crying, singing, he assumes his gesture in anticipation by evoking the republication of the caricatures, it is a kind of manifesto, he announces his passage to the act , but it is not an allegiance to an organization. ”
The editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, which has moved to a secret location for four years, has come under new threats since this satirical weekly once again published cartoons of Muhammad on September 2, to mark the opening of the trial of the accomplices of the authors of the bloody attack that targeted its editorial staff in 2015.
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