Notre-Dame attack: Farid Ikken appears in Paris court

An Algerian man who was shot after attacking a policeman with a hammer at Notre Dame cathedral has regarded before a choose in Paris.
Farid Ikken, 40, become formally charged with the tried murder of law enforcement officials and association with terrorists.
The journalist became reading in France for a doctorate in communications.
He turned into defined through the Paris prosecutor as a novice jihadist with a peculiar profile.
Francois Molins defined Mr. Ikken as a professionally a hit guy, a highbrow, who had never given absolutely everyone who knew him the slightest sign of radicalisation.
Last Tuesday in front of Notre-Dame cathedral, Mr. Ikken attacked a policeman with a hammer whilst shouting “This is for Syria”, and changed into then shot and wounded.
He has jailed ahead of a hearing. He had formerly been receiving health center treatment below armed guard for a gunshot wound to the leg.
Mr. Ikken informed investigators he had radicalized himself over a duration of 10 months, Mr. Molins stated.
At his domestic outdoor Paris, the prosecutor brought, investigators observed a computer and four USB keys which contained:
A manual for “lone wolves” issued by way of so-called Islamic State (IS)
Images of the London assault three days formerly
Videos “glorifying” earlier attacks in Paris and Brussels.

A videoed message of guide for IS which Mr. Ikken had tried however did not upload onto social media on the eve of his attack
“He had never shown any sign of radicalisation to the ones close to him, he had in no way been convicted, he changed into unknown to the intelligence offerings and up to now, no signs and symptoms of contact with everybody in Iraq or Syria have been discovered,” Mr. Molins stated.

“He, therefore, seems to have the profile of a neophyte that the offerings fighting terrorism worry as an awful lot of hardened cases. It suggests the diversity of profiles and that something is viable.”

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three Feb 2017 – A machete-wielding Egyptian guy shouting “Allahu akbar” attacks French infantrymen at Paris’s Louvre Museum – he’s shot and wounded
26 Jul 2016 – Two attackers slit the throat of a priest at his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in Normandy. They are shot lifeless by police
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13 Jun 2016 – A knife-wielding jihadist kills a police officer and his partner at their home in Magnanville, west of Paris. He announces allegiance to IS, and police later kill him
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7-nine Jan 2015 – Two Islamist gunmen stormed the Paris workplaces of satirical mag Charlie Hebdo, killing 17 humans. Another Islamist militant kills a policewoman day after today and takes hostages at a Jewish grocery store in Paris. Four hostages are killed earlier than police shoot the gunman dead. The different gunmen are cornered and killed via police in a siege