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French police are waiting to interview the man suspected of ploughing a car into a group of soldiers as he recovers from wounds after being shot during his arrest.
The suspect has been named as Hamou Bachir Benlatreche, a 36-year-old Algerian national, legally resident in France and unknown to the security services. He is in a serious condition in hospital after he was shot while being apprehended on a motorway in northern France.
Mohammed Benlatreche, the suspect’s uncle, said he did not recognise the photograph of his nephew with a long beard in the media, and insisted he had never shown any inclination toward or support for terrorism.
“I was astonished when I saw the picture on the television. I’ve never seen him with a beard. Never. He was always shaved. He attended prayers like any Muslim. You could have knocked me over,” Benlatreche told BFMTV.
The latest attack, the sixth on France’s security services in less than two years, has brought criticism over the continuation of Operation Sentinelle, introduced following the attacks in Paris in January 2015 and expanded as part of a national state of emergency after the series of bombings and shootings in the French capital in November that year.
Between 7,000 and 10,000 soldiers along with several thousand gendarmes and police have been patrolling France since the attacks, half of them in and around Paris.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...o-interview-suspect-after-car-rammed-soldiers
Another 'surprised' relative of a terrorist has spoken up, nearly identical to the Bastille Day massacre terrorist's family.
These Islam inspired terrorists are finding it harder to attack citizens or tourists, so they're going after security forces instead.
With France now in a defensive posture that sees 10,000 soldiers being forced to guard against foreign nationals or home grown Islamists who may turn violent, you'd think France would be rethinking it's politics.