Islamic State claims responsibility after two women killed in Marseille train station knife attack
Attacker at the main Marseille train station was believed to be Tunisian and had gone under eight different aliases
French antiterrorism investigators scrambled on Monday to identify a knifeman who used multiple aliases before killing two women at the main train station in Marseille in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
Sunday’s killings in France’s second-biggest city followed a string of stabbings around Europe claimed by, or blamed on Islamist radicals.
The identity of the attacker in Marseille, a man with a record of petty crime who was said by witnesses to have shouted “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) at the start of his rampage, is still unknown.
French prosecutor Francois Molins said the suspect had presented a Tunisian passport to police when he was last stopped on September 29.
Investigators said he had gone by eight different names during various brushes with the law, including for shoplifting and illegal weapons possession.
