After the death of an administrative police officer of police, killed, yesterday, Friday April 23, 2021 in a knife attack in Rambouillet (Yvelines), the spotlights riveted on Jamel Gorchane, the assailant who was shot by the police.
This Tunisian, from Msaken, as his Facebook profile indicates, arrived in France in 2009. Unknown to the police and territorial information, his profile and his motivations remain, for the time being, blurring.
Aged 36, he had so far never appeared in police radars, justice but also intelligence since his arrival in France 12 years ago, while he was in an irregular situation.
Jamel Gorchane was a driver-liver and had a year since December 2020 has been a year, a year, said national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office. He lived at his father’s home.
According to AFP, he held a public Facebook profile in which he mainly shared articles describing Islamophobia. But for a year, there have been exclusively Koranic verses.
The anti-terrorist prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said that the suspect would first have made a “tracking”, before attacking the victim, which accredited the thesis of the premeditation of his act.
The investigators hope that the documents and materials seized during the searches will make it possible to advance the investigation and to clarify these 12 years in France since his departure from Tunisia.
“The fact that he shouted Allahou Akbar and the presence of files related to Islamist terrorism, found at his home and on his phone, are the essential elements that confirmed the thesis of an attack,” commented a source close to the Parisian survey.
This Saturday, his father, as well as two other people who hosted him, are interviewed. They were placed in police custody for the needs of the survey.
