Grigol Liluashvili, the Head of the Georgian State Security Service, on Wednesday said the French investigative services “have not contacted Georgia for legal assistance regarding the father of the Arras attacker”, who killed one and injured several people in a knife attack at a public school in northern France town of Arras.
Liluashvili was commenting on the French media report, which alleged that the 20-year-old Arras attacker’s father “was deported from France a few years ago and currently lives in Georgia”.
He stressed that the French side generally should request legal assistance officially, after which investigative activities would be carried out, adding at the moment the Arras school stabbing was being investigated only by the French authorities.
Last Friday, the attacker killed a school teacher and injured several, with the French Government calling it an Islamist terror attack, prompting President Emmanuel Macron to call for a “ruthless” approach towards extremists, the media reported.