The police have arrested five people in connection with a
deadly knife attack at the Paris police headquarters earlier this month. The
arrests were announced by the police on Monday morning.
On October 3 at about noon, Mickaël Harpon attacked his
colleagues at the headquarters, killing three male and a female staffer. The
45-year-old IT specialist killed was later shot dead by a junior officer.
The imam who officiates at a mosque in the town of Gonesse,
which Harpon attended, was among those arrested in the northern Paris suburbs.
On Friday last week, the mayor of Gonesse announced that the Muslim association
had dismissed the imam, who is on France’s “Fiche S” list of potential
security risks.
The identities of the four other suspects were not publicly
disclosed.
Harpon is reported to have converted to Islam about ten
years ago.
The anti-terror police are still investigating the deadly
attack.
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