Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray: suspect arrested in Toulouse area – L’Express

Adel Abdel Malik Kermiche and Petitjean were they complicit? A man was arrested Monday in the Haute-Garonne in the context of the investigation into the attack against the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, committed by two young radicalized, says a judicial source in L’Express. This young man aged 21 “was arrested in the Toulouse region in the context of further investigation,” said our interlocutor.

On Wednesday, police custody was still ongoing. It can last up to 96 hours on terrorism. According BFMTV, who revealed the information, the individual would have been in telephone contact with the two killers, which it was established they met via the encrypted Application Telegram. He also made a suspicious movement between Toulouse and Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray the days before the killing.

The relationship of the two killers peeled

During the attack, and Adel Abdel Malik Kermiche Petitjean had murdered the priest Jacques Hamel, seriously injured a parishioner before being shot dead by police BIS Rouen. Since then, investigators seek to determine whether the two young men came into contact through an intermediary and they benefited from complicity. Even if they acted on instructions of a sponsor. Terrorists, aged 19, lived more than 700 kilometers from each other, one in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, the other in Aix-les-Bains (Savoie).

As revealed by L’Express, the investigations enabled to highlight the existence of at least one individual could have “exercised a virtual influence” on the passage to the act . In parallel, while Adel Kermiche had died seven days, the Telegram chain has recovered to be issued. An unidentified individual, who seems to be in a war zone, issued a message praising the two killers.

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An indicted in the

To date, one person has been indicted and received into the context of the statement: it is Farid K., cousin of Abdel Malik Petitjean. It appeared that he had known, if only the date and the precise target of the violent action of the terrorist project.

Adel Kermiche was known of the antiterrorist justice for two starting attempts in Syria and was under judicial control. Abdelmalik Petitjean, meanwhile, was stuck S a month before the attack, also for trying to win the Syria-Iraq zone, but was unknown to the court.