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		</div><p>A man accused of fatally stabbing a tourist and injuring two other people at the weekend near the Eiffel Tower was placed under investigation on Wednesday on charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist organisation, the prosecutor’s office said.</p>
<p>An investigating magistrate handed Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab the preliminary charges at the request of anti-terrorism prosecutors.</p>
<p>The judge ordered him placed in isolation.</p>
<p>Under French law, preliminary charges precede any indictment, which comes after an investigation and would send the suspect to trial. Charges also can be dropped.</p>
<p>Rajabpour-Miyandoab, 26, is accused of killing a German-Filipino tourist at a bridge near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday.</p>
<p>He was under surveillance for suspected Islamic radicalisation at the time, and had been convicted and served prison time for a planned attack that never took place.</p>
<p>The stabbing has drawn special concern from French authorities less than a year before the 2024 Paris Olympics, whose opening ceremony is planned along the Seine river.</p>
<p>It has also raised questions about how people convicted of terrorism-linked crimes can move about freely after serving their sentences.</p>
<p>Rajabpour-Miyandoab told police he was concerned about the situation of Muslims, notably in Afghanistan and the Middle East amid the war between Israel and Hamas.</p>
<p>He recorded a video before the attack in which he swore allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group and expressed support for Islamic extremists in various areas including Africa, Iraq, Syria, Egypt’s Sinai, Yemen, Iran and Pakistan, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said.</p>
<p>He was under psychiatric treatment and was on a special list of feared radicals, the prosecutor said.</p>
<p>The investigating judge handed the suspect, born in France of Iranian origin, the preliminary charges that noted he was allegedly in a “legal state of relapse”, meaning he could repeat offences, the statement said.</p>
<p>The judge also handed down a charge of of association with terrorist criminals for the preparation of one or more crimes targeting people.</p>
<p>Rajabpour-Miyandoab was born in 1997 in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, outside Paris, to a family with no religious affiliation.</p>
<p>He converted to Islam at the age of 18 and quickly adhered to Islamic extremist ideology, Mr Ricard told a news conference on Sunday.</p>
<p>In 2016, he was convicted and imprisoned for four years until 2020 on a charge of planning violence.</p>
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