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Chechnya-born Paris stabber had been on extremist watchlist
Updated On: 14 May, 2018 08:15 AM IST | Paris | Agencies
The Frenchman, born in 1997 in the Russian republic of Chechnya, was on the so-called "S file" of people suspected of radicalised views who could pose security risks, the sources said, though he did not have a criminal record
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Police shot and killed the man on the Rue Monsigny. Pic/AFP
The knifeman who killed one man and wounded four other people on Saturday night in Paris had been on an anti-terror watchlist of suspected extremists, said sources close to the inquiry on Sunday.
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