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man who worked in an intelli-
gence office, also exchanged 33
religious text messages with his
wife before leaving his desk to
buy the knives he used in the at-
tack, said prosecutor Jean-Fran-
çois Ricard.
Mr. Ricard’s statement sheds
light on the potential motivation
behind a security breach in one
of the most sensitive divisions
of the French police.
Mr. Ricard said only that in-vestigations “turned up contacts
between the attacker and sev-
eral individuals likely belonging
to the Salafist movement.”
Mr. Ricard said interviews
with witnesses and neighbors
suggested the attacker had been
turning toward radical Islam.
Mr. Ricard also corrected de-
tails that French officials had
communicated Friday. He said
the attacker had, according to
witnesses, converted to Islamaround 10 years ago, not 18
months ago, and had used two
knives, a metal kitchen knife and
an oyster knife, in the attack.
The suspect killed three men
in the intelligence unit.He then
tried to enter another office
but found the door locked, and
so stabbed two female police
employees as he went down-
stairs to the building’s main
courtyard. It was there he was
shot dead, Mr. Ricard said.PARIS—The police employee
who stabbed to death four col-
leagues in a suspected terrorist
attack at Paris police headquar-
ters on Thursday appeared to
have calmly planned his assault
and been in contact with people
tied to an ultraconservative
strain of Islam, France’s antiter-
rorist prosecutor said.
The attacker, a 45-year-old
BYSAMSCHECHNER
Paris Attacker Tied to Radical Islam
WORLDWATCH
UKRAINE
Moves to End Russia
Conflict Spark Protest
Thousands protested across
Ukraine against President Volod-
ymyr Zelensky’s efforts to end a
five-year conflict with Russia,
adding a domestic challenge for a
novice leader who is also trying
to contain fallout from his phone
call with President Trump.
Protesters worry Mr. Zel-
ensky—encouraged by European
leaders eager toimproveties
with Russia—is acceding to Mos-
cow’s demands. The Kremlin
wants to reintegrate separatist
regions it controls, starting with
holding elections in the region of
eastern Ukraine. That, the critics
say, could allow Moscow to dis-
rupt Kyiv’s plans to integrate
Ukraine with the West.
Mr. Zelensky swept to the
presidency in an April election
with a promise to end the con-
flict, which has cost some 13,
lives and sapped Ukraine’s limited
resources. In recent weeks, Mr.
Zelensky’s administration has
been sucked into the storm in
U.S. politics.
—James Marson
PORTUGAL
Prime Minister Claims
An Edge in Election
Socialist Prime Minister
António Costa, who has presided
over one of the eurozone’s bright-
est success stories of recent
years, finished first in elections
Sunday but failed to win an out-
right majority, an outcome that
will push the premier to turn to
far-left parties to form a new
government.
Mr. Costa has governed for
the last four years with the sup-
port of the Communist Party and
the Left Bloc. On Sunday he said
he would seek to maintain the
same alliance and to broaden it
to other smaller leftist parties.
Nearly complete election re-
sults showed Mr. Costa’s Social-
ists elected 106 lawmakers, be-
low the 116 absolute majority
needed. The Left Bloc won 19
seats and the Communists 12.
“The Portuguese want a new
government of a reinforced So-
cialist Party, that can govern with
stability,” Mr. Costa said.
—Giovanni Legorano
KOSOVO
Opposition Leads
In Parliament Vote
Two Kosovo opposition parties
emerged as the top-vote getters
in snap elections for a new parlia-
ment amid calls for leaders to re-
sume dialogue with Serbia over
normalizing ties.
With 76% of the votes counted,
the left-wing Self-Determination
Movement Party had 26% of the
votes. It was just ahead of the cen-
ter-right Democratic League of Ko-
sovo, with 25%. Kadri Veseli of the
former governing conservative
Democratic Party of Kosovo con-
ceded.
Former Prime Minister Ra-
mush Haradinaj resigned in July
following a request from a Hague-
based court to question him over
crimes against ethnic Serbs during
and after the country’s wars in the
late 1990s.
—Associated Press
TUNISIA
Economic Complaints
Dominate Race
Tunisians were voting for a
new parliament amid a tumultu-
ous political season, with a mod-
erate Islamist party and a jailed
tycoon’s populist movement vying
to come out on top of a crowded
field.
Security was tight for the vote
on Sunday, with around 100,
police officers and soldiers patrol-
ling 4,500 polling stations.
Economic concerns are para-
mount to voters in this North Af-
rican nation, which kicked off the
Arab Spring uprisings in 2011 and
built a democracy, but is strug-
gling with high unemployment
and extremist attacks.
—Associated Press
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