(Reuters) A man who killed two people in a knife attack in southeastern France at the weekend is a refugee from Sudan and has been charged with terrorism offences and murder, the French anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
Five people were also wounded in Saturday’s attack. The 33-year-old suspect probably acted alone, “without having been given any orders by a terrorist organisation,” the office said in a statement.
It added that the man, who worked locally, had not been known to police forces or intelligence services. He had arrived in France in August 2016 and obtained refugee status in June 2017.
When police arrested him shortly after the attack, he was kneeling on a pavement and praying in Arabic.
