Overview

• The defendant was placed under formal investigation for association of wrongdoers to prepare terrorist acts and was remanded to pretrial detention.
• Digital forensics uncovered exchanges with suspected Islamic State contacts in Iraq and Syria and statements about readiness for armed jihad and travel to the Sahel.
• Investigators cite messages that mentioned attacking a busy train station, alongside others in which he said he was not ready to act in France.
• Authorities found two knives at his home, while his devices held tutorials on killing, detonator-making and poison, jihadist videos, and photos at Paris landmarks including one of him masked.
• Defense lawyer Roxane Best emphasized the presumption of innocence and requested a rapid neuro-developmental assessment to be considered during the instruction, with French media reporting the suspect as an Algerian in his early twenties.