Taxi driver attacked with a butcher's sheet: what do we know about the radicalized man arrested after 48 hours of tracking ?

L'homme a été interpellé dans les Yvelines dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi. Illustration Envato @BrianAJackson

l'essentiel Un homme radicalisé a été arrêté dans la nuit de jeudi 18 à vendredi 19 juillet. Il avait agressé dans la nuit de mardi 16 à mercredi 17 juillet un chauffeur de taxi en proférant des propos islamistes. Que sait-on de Derek R. ?

Derek R., 26, had been wanted since he attacked a taxi driver during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday before fleeing. He had been hunted for two days by the police. Arrested this Friday, July 19, we now know more about his profile.

The man, radicalized, was released from prison in June France Info indicates that he was working there a sentence for theft and violence, and was monitored by intelligence. Their fears were confirmed, since shortly after his release from prison, he called a taxi from his mother's home where he lived in Sarthe. 

Seven people from his entourage also in police custody

"At gunpoint and while making comments favorable to Hamas and its 'Muslim brothers& #39;, he forced a taxi driver who had just picked him up to go to an isolated place in La Ferté-Bernard", indicated this Friday the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (pnat ). 

According to France Info, Derek R. tried to slit the taxi driver's throat with a butcher's leaf. He was arrested in Poissy in Yvelines and is now in police custody, along with seven people from his entourage.