French investigators probing a knife attack in Marseille at the weekend have not found any link so far between the assailant and the Islamic State group, a source close to the case tells AFP.
IS’s Amaq propaganda agency claimed late Sunday that the killer of two women at the main train station in the port city was “from the soldiers of the Islamic State.”
“The claim by IS raises questions because there’s nothing to link the assailant to Islamic State at this stage,” the source tells AFP on condition of anonymity.
Top anti-terror prosecutor Francois Molins also gave new details about the attacker at a press conference in Paris, saying he had been arrested last week for shoplifting in the western city of Lyon.
The man presented a Tunisian passport showing his age as 29, but security forces are still unsure of his true identity because he had been found in police files under seven different aliases since 2005.
— AFP
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