It was also unclear whether the details had been passed on to other third parties, say investigators, but that is the now concern of those officers working in the Paris counter-terrorism intelligence unit. One police union spokesperson Noam Anouar told BFM TV the USB key was like "opening Pandora's box." "We can't leave 1,000 intelligence officers at Paris police HQ continue living in such fear and uncertainty," he said. He had recently been in very close contact with a Muslim preacher, known to the French intelligence services as a Salafist, who authorities consider advocated a very strict practice of his religion. "Nevertheless, nothing says that it precipitated his action," a source close to the case told Le Parisien.

Source: The Local October 08, 2019 07:30 UTC