France & Its Fiery Religious Problem.

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One could be forgiven if the idea of sleeper-cells, a subtle invasion and an inborn weakness for those who
govern a country, could be arrived at due to the evidence.

Violence, a fall in social standards and a constant wariness of each other are not natural communal traits
and yet, the terror continues, the same ideology is blamed for promoting the violence and the media fails
to recognise the pattern.

Paris police killings: Attacker showed signs of 'radicalisation'.

'A man who stabbed four people to death at police headquarters in Paris adhered to a radical version
of Islam, anti-terrorist prosecutors say. Mickaël Harpon had contact with members of the Salafist movement,
prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said.

He had exchanged text messages of a religious nature with his wife before Thursday's attack, the prosecutor said.
He also defended the deadly 2015 attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo and other atrocities, Mr Ricard said.
Anti-terror investigators took over the inquiry on Friday. It was initially regarded as a criminal matter.

The 45-year-old IT expert, who worked at the police headquarters, was shot dead on Thursday by a junior police
officer after he attacked colleagues in several offices at the central police building.




What do we know about the attacker?
Harpon had converted to Islam and had been in contact with the Salafist movement, Mr Ricard said, in reference
to the ultra-conservative Islamic ideology. The attacker "agreed with certain atrocities committed in the name of
that religion", he said.

Among them was the Charlie Hebdo attack in 2015, when Islamist gunmen killed 11 people in the Paris office
of the satirical magazine, before shooting dead a policeman outside. The prosecutor also noted that the killer
had changed his style of clothing in recent months and had cut off contact with women.

Police earlier seized computer equipment during a search of the attacker's home in the north of the city.
His wife on Friday reportedly told police that he had been incoherent and had heard voices the night before the
attack.

What happened?
The employee entered the building around lunchtime on Thursday, and proceeded to attack his colleagues with a
kitchen knife. He stabbed three people inside two offices and two women on a stairway, before he was shot dead
by an officer inside the building's courtyard.

Three men and one woman were killed. A fifth person was seriously injured.
The police building is near major tourist sites including Notre-Dame cathedral...'

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