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Added on the 03/12/2021 15:28:00 - Copyright : France 24 EN
In 2015 Ayoub El Khazzani, a 25-year-old Moroccan, was stopped by several passengers including several American tourists as he prepared to launch a terrorist attack on a French high-speed Thalys train travelling to the French capital from Brussels. He stands trial in Paris and the prosecution lawyer, Thibault de Montbrial, says any attempt at repentance by the accused should be ignored. SOUNDBITE
19 disabled people have been stabbed to death in their sleep by 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu. He turned himself in straight after the massacre.
Flags fly at half mast in front of EU buildings in Brussels to honour French and European politician Jacques Delors on the day of his national tribute in Paris. IMAGES
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
Several people lay flowers in front of the Arras secondary school, which is in mourning after the Islamist attack in which a teacher was killed and three other people injured. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges the West to rally around the people of Israel as they did around Ukraine after Russia's invasion, and show them they are not "alone". "My recommendation to the leaders: to go to Israel and I think to support people, just people I'm not speaking about any institutions, just to support people who have been under terrorist attacks," he says, on a visit to NATO headquarters. SOUNDBITE