A 32-year-old Malian, identified as ‘Kassogue S.’, attacked three people in Paris’ Gare de Lyon train station, leaving one critically injured.
Despite police attributing the attack to mental illness rather than terrorism, authenticated videos on the attacker’s TikTok account show anti-French sentiments and a suggestion of violence.
The videos reveal his disdain for France, alleging mistreatment and theft by the French.
“I’m not French, I don’t dream of being French, I don’t like France, I hate all French people,” Kassogue said.
“It is my own reason to ignore France because the French who deprived me of my right to live, it is the French who took away my dignity. It was the French who stole… it was the French who took my grandparents hostage for slavery. It was the French who forced my grandparents to do forced labour to be able to settle their accounts, their economy.”
“You entered the African continent illegally for resources, mistreated people, raped women, murdered small children, removed children’s organs, stole our financial material goods… You are more cursed than Satan. Even Satan can’t teach you a lesson,” he said in one video.
“Sometimes you have to attack, you shouldn’t always wait for the principle of reciprocity. Sometimes you have to attack to be able to dominate your own enemy, to be able to scare your enemy, to threaten your enemy. This is what we call the principle of domination.”
Although police emphasized mental illness as the likely cause, the attacker’s anti-French rhetoric and invocation of Islam have raised questions about the motivation behind the assault.
Despite police assertions ruling out terrorism, investigations are ongoing, with the suspect’s videos and statements adding complexity to the case.
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