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Wednesday 4 OctOber 2017

French authorities suspect 4 of helping killer in Marseille

ber 2015. Interior Minister Gerard
The National Assembly Collomb said on France In-
passed the bill Tuesday by ter radio that the assailant
415-127. It still has to go to in Marseille had Italian resi-
the upper house and then dency and a valid Tunisian
return to the assembly for passport.
a final vote.The law would One of the seven IDs the
make permanent some of attacker used in previous
the measures imposed as encounters with French
part of a state of emergen- police was a Tunisian pass-
cy that began just after the port identifying him as
Paris attacks. Critics say the Ahmed H. A judicial official
bill infringes on individual said that authorities have
liberties and puts the coun- determined that is the
try in a permanent state of Marseille attacker’s true
emergency. identity.Collomb said he
In the Marseille probe, a ju- has ordered an internal in-
dicial official said four peo- vestigation into why the at-
ple were detained Tuesday tacker had seven encoun-
in the probe into Sunday’s ters with French police and
killing of two young wom- had no residency papers,
en at the city’s main train but wasn’t expelled from
station. The attacker was the country. His latest ar-
Members of the media stand outside the entrance of an apartment building where police found killed by soldiers just after rest was just two days be-
an explosive device early Saturday, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. Five people are in custody and a ter- the stabbings, which were fore the stabbing, when he
rorism investigation is under way after an apparent failed bombing attempt in a chic Paris neigh- claimed by the Islamic was picked up for shoplift-
borhood. State group. ing and released.
(AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu) Rome prosecutors opened
The four are being held in
By PHILIPPE SOTTO people remained in custo- the French Parliament ap- custody on suspicion of their own terrorism inves-
Associated Press dy after being detained by proved by an overwhelm- criminal association in rela- tigation into the suspect,
PARIS (AP) — French au- French authorities over an ing majority a controversial tion with a terrorist under- identified in the Italian me-
thorities on Tuesday de- apparent failed bombing security law intended to taking. Several locations dia as Ahmed Hanachi. He
tained four people sus- attempt in an apartment strengthen police and intel- were searched in the in- had lived in Aprilia, south of
pected of helping a man building in a chic Paris ligence capacity in fighting vestigation. Rome, from about 2006 to
who later stabbed to death neighborhood. the extremist threat. France The official, who spoke on 2014, Italian news agency
two women in the southern The two developments oc- has seen numerous attacks condition of anonymity un- ANSA said.The area south
port city of Marseille. curred on the same day in recent years, including der internal rules, wouldn’t of Rome was also where
In a separate case, five that the lower house of 130 killed in Paris in Novem- give more details. the Berlin Christmas mar-
Denmark: ket attacker, Anis Amri,
spent about a week in July
Stab wounds found on dead journalist’s torso 2015 after getting out of
an Italian prison. There’s
no indication the two ever
COPENHAGEN, Den- hearing that the cause of eos found on Madsen’s body and attached a belt crossed paths, the daily La
mark (AP) — Fifteen stabs death for 30-year-old Kim personal computer are with a pipe to the torso with Repubblica said, without
wounds were found on Wall has not yet been es- considered real. the purpose of making it citing sources.Meanwhile
the headless and dismem- tablished. Wall’s torso was found off sink. in Paris, police said Tues-
bered torso of a Swed- Inventor Peter Madsen, 46, Copenhagen Aug. 21, 10 The missing body parts day that a neighbor alert-
ish journalist last seen with is being held on preliminary days after Madsen’s arrest. were cut off after Wall’s ed authorities to suspicious
a Danish inventor in his charges of manslaughter The two — who didn’t know death, Buch-Jepsen said, activity early Saturday in
home-made submarine, a and indecent handling of each other beforehand — quoting an autopsy report. the building in the posh
prosecutor said Tuesday. a corpse. Madsen says Wall had gone out on Madsen’s The hearing at Copenha- 16th arrondissement, or dis-
Police also found videos on died after being acciden- 40-ton submarine UC3 Nau- gen City Court was not trict. A judicial official said
the man’s computer show- tally hit by a 70-kilogram tilus on Aug. 10 aimed at determining the an explosive device was
ing women being tortured (155-pound) hatch in the Buch-Jepsen said Madsen, guilt of Madsen, but ex- found and deactivated
and murdered. submarine’s tower and he 46, had killed Wall at an un- tending his detention to and that counterterrorism
Prosecutor Jakob Buch- buried her at sea. known time between Aug. Oct. 31 while police con- prosecutors have opened
Jepsen said at a pre-trial Buch-Jepsen said the vid- 10 and 11, had cut up the tinue to investigate.q an investigation. q