The gunman who killed a passer-by on Saturday night in Paris and injured four others is a French national born in 1997 in Chechnya, according to new information, while it had previously become known and transmitted by French media that he was a Russian citizen. . The 29-year-old perpetrator shouted "Allah is great", attacked passers-by and then fell dead from police fire.
His mother and father have been brought in for questioning by French police, the same source said.
According to a court source in the French News Agency, the perpetrator had no precedent with the police and had never occupied the authorities.
The Islamic State group has already claimed responsibility for the attack. "The perpetrator of the knife attack in Paris is an Islamic State soldier," according to Amak, the organisation's news agency.
It is recalled that the young man attacked the crowd with a knife, near the Opera House, in the heart of Paris, killing one person and injuring four others.
The four injured are out of danger, Interior Minister Gerard Colomb said overnight. A 34-year-old man was rushed to Georges Pompidou Hospital and a 54-year-old woman was also seriously injured. A 26-year-old and a 31-year-old were slightly injured.