{"id":65110,"date":"2018-05-13T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=65110"},"modified":"2018-05-13T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T11:33:07","slug":"suspect-in-a-deadly-knife-attack-in-paris-has-roots-in-chechnya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=65110","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in a deadly knife attack in Paris has roots in Chechnya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paris, May 13 (TNS): <\/strong>The suspect in a deadly knife attack in central Paris was born in the Russian republic of Chechnya in 1997, sources say.<\/p>\n<p>Named by French media as Khamzat Asimov, he was on a French watch list of people who could pose a threat to national security, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Police shot dead the attacker in the busy Op\u00e9ra district after he killed a man and injured four other people.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted (in French): &#8220;France has once again paid in blood, but will not give an inch to the enemies of freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>France has been on high alert following a series of attacks. More than 230 people have been killed by IS-inspired jihadists in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was not carrying any identification papers and has not yet been officially named.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told French media the man had no criminal record and his parents had been held for questioning. He is believed to be a French citizen but investigators have not yet said when he arrived in France.<\/p>\n<p>The man had been categorised as &#8220;fiche S&#8221;, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>This flags people considered to be a possible threat to national security and allows for surveillance without being a cause for arrest.<\/p>\n<p>It includes those suspected of Islamist radicalisation but is wide-ranging and covers such groups as political extremists, gangsters and even football hooligans.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, then Prime Minister Manuel Valls said there were 20,000 names on the list, about half related to Islamist radicalisation.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the first time an assailant of Chechen origin has carried out a terrorist attack in France.<\/p>\n<p>France is home to some 30,000 people of Chechen origin.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courtesy: BBC<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, May 13 (TNS): The suspect in a deadly knife attack in central Paris was born in the Russian republic of Chechnya in 1997, sources say. Named by French media as Khamzat Asimov, he was on a French watch list of people who could pose a threat to national security, the sources said. Police shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65112,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65110\/revisions\/65112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}