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“I knew him well enough to say hello, not much more than that,” he told AP. “He came across as strict, quiet. He walked with his head down.”
The Villeray-St Michel-Parc Extension borough where Ftouhi lived is a large, ethnically diverse Montreal neighborhood, with almost half of its 142,000 residents born outside Canada, according to city gures. Almost 8,000 claim Arabic as their rst language.
North African emigrants often choose to settle in the French-speaking province of Quebec, drawn by its immigration policies that favor francophone applicants.
Investigators said they also want to know more about Ftouhi’s movements within the U.S.
He legally entered the U.S. at Champlain, New York, on June 16 and was in Michigan by at least June 18, said Gellios, who would not say whether Ftouhi entered the U.S. under a so-called trusted traveler program.
He spent some time in public, unsecured areas of the airport before going to a restroom where he dropped two bags before attacking the of cer with a 12-inch knife that had an 8-inch serrated blade, Gelios said. Neville “fought him to the end,” managing to stop the stabbing and bring Ftouhi to the ground as other
of cers arrived to help, according to Chris Miller, the airport police chief.
Ftouhi asked an of cer who subdued him why he did not kill him, according to the criminal complaint.
Police described him as “cooperative” and said he was talking to investigators. ___
Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writers Jeff Karoub, Mike Householder and Corey Williams in Detroit; Ashraf Khalil and Tammy Webber in Chicago; Kenneth Thomas in Washington; Sadie Gurman in Phoenix, Arizona; and freelance writer Patrick Lejtenyi in Montreal also contributed to this report.
Brexit: May offers hope for EU citizens, wins guarded praise By RAF CASERT and LORNE COOK, Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May promised Thursday that EU citizens will not be immediately kicked out of Britain when it leaves the union and says their fate will be a top priority in Brexit negotiations — prompting guarded praise from other EU leaders at a tense time for the continent.
May’s proposals at an EU summit were a carefully timed gesture days after talks began on Britain’s departure. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called them “a good start.”
May laid out benchmarks for the rights of 3 million EU citizens living legally in Britain and how they should be shielded from excessive harm because of the divorce. She made it clear that Britain wants reciprocal measures for the 1.5 million British citizens living in the EU. The issue of citizens’ rights is especially sensi- tive in the Brexit talks.
Under May’s proposal, EU citizens with legal residence in the UK will not be asked to leave and will be offered a chance to regularize their situation after Brexit, a senior British of cial said. May also promised to cut the burdensome bureaucracy such paperwork can involve, the of cial said.
“No one will face a cliff edge,” the of cial said, speaking on condition of anonymity since May made the proposal at a closed-door EU summit dinner.
Merkel welcomed May’s promises, but insisted that “there are, of course, many, many other issues.” She mentioned the bill that Britain will have to pay to leave and questions about how to deal with the border between Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.
“It means we have lots left to do,” Merkel said.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said May’s proposals are “a rst step” but warned there are still many European citizens in Britain who would not be covered by the proposals. “We are now at the start of all this and we don’t know whether it will be a sprint or a marathon,” he said.
The Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, said there are “thousands of questions to ask” about May’s pro- posals, and questioned why the British leader was laying them out with EU leaders instead of with the Brexit negotiators.