The perpetrator of an attack in central Paris on Monday had been to Turkey many times in 2016 and had gone to France through Turkey, according to a statement made by the Paris Prosecutor’s Office, CNN Türk reported on Thursday.
The perpetrator, who died in the incident, left a letter to his brother-in-law declaring his allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), reported the Diken news website.
The attacker, whose car hit a police vehicle before bursting into flames on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, was on a security watch list. A Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas canisters were found in his car.