Police questioned suspect in Marseille knife killings prior to attackOCTOBER 2, 2017 / 3:29 AM / UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-marseille/police-questioned-suspect-in-marseille-knife-killings-prior-to-attack-idUSKCN1C70M4PARIS (Reuters) - A man suspected of carrying out a knife attack in the French city of Marseille, in which two women were stabbed to death, had been arrested and then released by police the day before the incident, the Paris public prosecutor said on Monday.
The prosecutor, Francois Molins, told a news conference that the suspect, who was shot dead by a French soldier, went by seven different identities. One such identity named him as “Ahmed H”, born in 1987 in Tunisia.
He had shown a Tunisian passport when last stopped by police in the city of Lyon on Sept. 29 on suspicion of robbery. He was subsequently released by police for lack of evidence on Sept. 30, the day before Sunday’s attack.
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Molins said none of the suspect’s seven different identities had thrown up any alert on French anti-terrorist check lists. The authorities were trying now to establish his real name and the authenticity of the Tunisian passport he had shown.
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