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The investigation continues into the “terrorist attack” which took place on Saturday, around 9:30 p.m., in Paris. The main suspect in the fatal knife attack near the Eiffel Tower is still in custody on Monday. Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a 26-year-old radicalized Franco-Iranian, was arrested after the attack which caused the death of a young German-Filipino tourist and injured two other people. According to the first elements of the investigation, the suspect’s mother had indicated to the police in October that she was worried about her son, seeing that he was “withdrawing on himself”. The police then tried to have him examined by a doctor and hospitalized, something ultimately impossible in the absence of problems, according to a source close to the case. Sunday evening on TF1, Gérald Darmanin demanded that the authorities “can require an injunction for care” for a radicalized person being monitored for psychiatric disorders in order to prevent acts of violence.
It’s a case without a body and without a confession. Faced with overwhelming evidence, Nicolas Zepeda will once again try, starting this Monday, to convince the courts of his innocence. Found guilty at first instance of the assassination of Japanese woman Narumi Kurosaki, this 32-year-old Chilean will be tried on appeal in Vesoul before the Haute-Saône Assize Court. The jurors have three weeks to determine the responsibility of the accused in the disappearance of his ex-Japanese partner, which occurred on December 5, 2016.
Between Hamas and Israel, the humanitarian truce is well and truly over. Despite international pressure to obtain a ceasefire in order to protect civilians, fighting resumed on Friday. And since then, it’s been escalating again. Israel announced on Sunday evening that it was extending its land military operations to “the entire Gaza Strip”. Visiting reservists, the Israeli chief of staff, General Herzi Halevi, for his part declared the same day that the army was continuing its operations in the south of the Gaza Strip “with as much force and as much of results” as she had done in the North.