(AFP) There was confusion Monday over the identity of the man who injured two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week, which was condemned by the French government as an act of “Islamist terrorism.”
Investigators said the assailant had identified himself as Hassan A., an 18-year-old born in the Pakistani town of Mandi Bahauddin.
It appears he entered France three years ago, and was not known to police and not known to have ever displayed signs of supporting radical Islam.
But when looking through his mobile phone, investigators found a photo of an identity document that appears to suggest Hassan A. is actually called Zaheer Hassan Mehmood, aged 25, a source close to the investigation told AFP.
