Police get little out of Louvre suspect
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FRENCH investigators began questioning yesterday a suspect in the attack on soldiers at the Louvre Museum in Paris, but the man refused to speak, a judicial source said.
The suspect, believed to be an Egyptian national, was shot in the stomach and seriously wounded after lunging at the soldiers with two machetes on Friday.
The attack was the latest in a string of assaults in France and thrust the issue of security back into the headlines three months ahead of the French presidential election. Investigators decided to question him at his hospital bed after his condition improved, the source said.
The man “is refusing to speak to investigators for now,” the source said, adding that investigators planned to question him again later yesterday.
The suspect has been held at a Paris hospital since the attack near the museum on Friday.
Based on his phone and visa records, he is thought to be Abdallah El-Hamahmy, a 29-year-old Egyptian national living in the United Arab Emirates, who entered France legally on a flight from Dubai on January 26.
Investigators believe Hamahmy rented an expensive apartment near the Champs Elysees.
DNA testing
Investigators say the attacker, who was carrying two machetes and wearing a black T-shirt with a skull design, lunged at four soldiers shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”).
President Francois Hollande said that “there is little doubt as to the terrorist nature of this act.”
French investigators have contacted Egyptian officials in hopes of confirming the suspect’s identity through DNA testing, a source close to the inquiry said.
They also plan to contact officials in the UAE and in Turkey, since Hamahmy’s passport had two visas from Turkey, in 2015 and 2016.
Police are also examining Hamahmy’s Twitter account after around a dozen messages were posted in Arabic just minutes before the attack.
“In the name of Allah ... for our brothers in Syria and fighters across the world,” he wrote, before referring to the Islamic State jihadist group in another tweet a minute later.
A retired police general, Reda El-Hamahmy, said he believed the wounded suspect was his son, Abdallah, who had been in Paris on a business trip.
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