(AFP) The trial of an Egyptian who attacked soldiers at the Louvre museum with machetes, shouting “Allah u Akbar” (God is greatest), opened Monday with a description of his “atypical” and enigmatic profile.
Abdalla El Hamahmi, aged 33, is charged with “attempted terrorist murders” and associating with “terrorist criminals.”
The married father, who did commercial work for a Dubai-based company, faces life in jail for the attack on February 3, 2017.
He launched himself at four soldiers in the shopping precinct at the Paris museum, wounding one in the head, before they shot him.
No one claimed responsibility for the assault, which followed the series of jihadist outrages that left more than 250 dead in France from 2015.
