Weapons stash said found at Champs-Elysees attacker’s home

PARIS, France — Investigators find a stash of weapons at the home of a man killed while ramming a car loaded with guns and a gas canister into a police van on Paris’s Champs-Elysees on Monday, a source close to the probe says.

Adam Djaziri, a 31-year-old who had been on a watchlist for radical Islamists, had at least nine weapons, including two pistols and a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle, the source says.

The revelation of the discovery comes after Prime Minister Edouard Philippe expresses dismay that Djaziri was able to have a gun permit despite being on a jihadist watchlist.

“What I know at this stage is that the first weapons permit was given before this individual was flagged up,” he says in an interview with BFM television and RMC radio.

He adds that “nobody can be satisfied — and certainly not me” that Djaziri was still able to possess dangerous weapons.

— AFP