The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) has opened an investigation in Paris into the death of a 41-year-old Franco-Tunisian in an attack on Tuesday evening in front of the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, which killed four others, according to a press release Thursday. .
The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) has opened an investigation in Paris into the death of a 41-year-old Franco-Tunisian in an attack on Tuesday evening in front of the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, which killed four others, according to a press release Thursday. . The Pnat, competent because of the French nationality of one of the victims, opened on Wednesday “an investigation of the head of the assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise. The investigations were entrusted to the General Directorate of Internal Security” ( DGSI), he says.
An attack “as cowardly as it is odious”
The attack, which took place as hundreds of worshipers completed the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue, the oldest in Africa, left five dead: three gendarmes and two worshippers, an Israeli-Tunisian and the Franco-Tunisian, killed in front of the synagogue by the assailant’s shots. “The attack on the Ghriba synagogue upsets us. We think with pain of the victims, of the Tunisian people, our friends. We stand alongside the family of our murdered compatriot”, reacted President Emmanuel Macron in a message published on Twitter.
The Central Consistory of France on Wednesday condemned this attack “as cowardly as it is odious”. On the Tunisian side, “a preliminary criminal investigation has been opened,” Fethi Bakkouche, spokesperson for the court in Medenine (southeast), on which the island of Djerba depends, told AFP.