ISIS knifeman, 20, who killed one and injured four in rampage near Paris opera house is named as a refugee from Chechnya who ‘was on anti-terror watchlist’ and claimed asylum in France a decade ago
Armed police swooped on Paris as a terrorist rampaged through part of the city while shouting ‘Allah Akbar’
Assailant, 20-year-old born in Chechnya, ‘slashed at the throats of innocent bystanders’ in the Opera district
He killed one man, aged 29, after stabbing him close to the city’s historic Opera House yesterday afternoon
Four others were injured as the killer, who ISIS have claimed was one of their ‘soldiers’, was targeted by police
Police have now detained the killer’s parents, who are also from Chechnya, after the savage slaughter in Paris
By Peter Allen In Paris and Stewart Paterson
DAILYMAIL.COM
13 May 2018
An Islamic State terrorist who arrived in France as a refugee from war-torn Chechnya launched a nine-minute lethal knife rampage in Paris before being gunned down, it emerged today.
The 20-year-old, named as Khamzat Asimov, murdered one man and severely wounded four others – including a Chinese and Luxembourg citizen – in the attacks close to the historic Opera Garnier, in the centre of the city.
Hours afterwards, his parents were both arrested at the family home in Paris, where they have lived since fleeing Chechnya in the early 2000s.
He was on an anti-terror watchlist of suspected extremists, sources close said today.
Police said they had arrested and held for questioning a friend of the attacker in Strasbourg.
Outlining details of the latest terrorist bloodbath in Paris, police said they received the first emergency call at 8.47pm on Saturday.
The attacker was shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ – Arabic for ‘God is the Greatest’ – as he slashed throats at random.
Paris prosecutors confirmed that the dead man was born in the Russian republic of Chechnya in 1997 and had no previous criminal record – but was on the so-called ‘S file’ of people suspected of radicalised views who could pose security risks.
‘He had no judicial record,’ a source said. ‘(The attacker) is French, born in Chechnya. His father and mother were placed in custody Sunday morning.’
He came to France as a political refugee in the early 2000s, and as he grew up displayed an increasing interest in radical Islam, another source added.
There are some 30,000 Chechens in France, most of whom arrived as political refugees in the early 2000s because of the two Chechen Wars.
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