After his arrest on Saturday evening, he told police he was “angry about what was happening in Gaza and that France would be complicit in what Israel was doing. He was also tired of seeing Muslims die in Afghanistan. And in Palestine,” the interior minister said. Defense evidence says the judges.
Investigators will also look into his medical monitoring. “Was he medically where he had to be and was he there for a period of time? It’s a matter that will come up” at the hearing, according to a defense source.
According to a source close to intelligence, 20% of the approximately 5,000 people monitored for radicalization in France suffer from mental disorders. Armand Rajapour-Miantop had “significant digital activity”.
On Sunday evening, the anti-terrorism prosecutor confirmed that a video protesting his action had been posted on social media. In this video, Armand Rajapur-Miantop pledges allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group.
Speaking in Arabic in the video, Armand Rajapour-Miantobe “gave his support to jihadists operating in different regions,” Jean-Francois Ricard announced at a press conference. The magistrate said the video was “significantly published online on his X account (formerly Twitter)”, which was opened in early October and included “a number of publications about Hamas, Gaza and Palestine in general”.
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