The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) has requested the holding of a trial against the alleged perpetrator of the knife attack which left one dead, a 23-year-old tourist, and two injured, in December 2023, near the Eiffel Tower, he announced on Friday April 24, confirming information from the regional daily Ouest-France.
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab will have to be tried before the Paris Assize Court, specially composed, for “assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise in a state of legal recidivism” and “attempted assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise in a state of legal recidivism”, requested the PNAT in its indictment, which dates from Monday. Contacted by Agence France-Presse, his lawyer, Clémentine Perros, did not wish to comment.
On the evening of Saturday December 2, 2023, the 26-year-old Franco-Iranian national killed a young German-Filipino tourist with a knife, and injured two other people with a hammer, near the Bir-Hakeim bridge.
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Stripped of his French nationality
While in police custody, he took responsibility and claimed responsibility for his attack, as he had done shortly before his crime by publishing on his X account a video in Arabic, in which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) organization.
In a controlled tone, he told investigators that he had taken action in reaction to the bombing of Gaza by the Israeli army, after the Hamas attack on October 7, but also in following the slogan of IS, which had called at the end of October to attack the “Jews”.
According to information from Le Monde, Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab also clarified that he had initially considered different targets, including several Jewish ones, before his December 2 attack. According to a source close to the investigation, he had also chosen the Enfants-du-Vél’-d’Hiv memorial garden, inaugurated in 2017 in memory of the roundup of 4,115 Jewish minors deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1942.
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Two months after the Arras attack
Mr. Rajabpour-Miyandoab was then indicted and placed in pre-trial detention in solitary confinement. He was stripped of his French nationality a year later.
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Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab had already been sentenced to five years of imprisonment for criminal conspiracy with terrorist aims, after a planned violent action at Defense in 2016.
He was released from prison in March 2020, with a treatment order “implying tight psychiatric monitoring and controlled by a coordinating doctor” until the end of the probation, on April 26, 2023, according to the PNAT. The attack put pressure on the government, barely two months after that in Arras, which cost the life of teacher Dominique Bernard.
The three other people arrested as part of this investigation – his parents and a radicalized 27-year-old woman whom he had contacted on social networks and met the day before the incident – had been released without prosecution.
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Originally published at Almouwatin.com
