Overview

• The Lyon prosecutor's office was recused and the case was assigned to the Paris anti-terror unit, according to a joint statement on October 13.
• Judges extended the investigation on October 9 to include assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise and criminal terrorist association.
• A 28-year-old Algerian suspect was arrested in Italy in early October and remains there at this stage, according to a source close to the investigation.
• The victim, Ashur Sarnaya, 45, an Iraqi Christian who used a wheelchair, was fatally stabbed in the neck on September 10 while live-streaming about Christianity.
• This is the third homicide in 2025 taken up by France's anti-terror justice after cases in Mulhouse and Puget-sur-Argens.