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		</div><p>The man who attacked police officers patrolling in front of Paris&#8217;s Notre Dame Cathedral, shouting &#8220;This is for Syria!&#8221;, was a mature student who had not been suspected of radicalisation, a French government spokesman has said.</p>
<p>Christopher Castaner told RTL radio on Wednesday that police were quickly able to classify the hammer attack as a terrorist act because of &#8220;the words he said&#8221;.</p>
<p>An officer was slightly injured in the attack on Tuesday and the attacker remains in hospital after being shot by police.</p>
<p>No group immediately claimed responsibility for the incident, but police searching the man&#8217;s residence outside Paris found a declaration of allegiance to the Islamic State group, according to the Paris prosecutor&#8217;s office.</p>
<p>A student identity card showed he is from Algeria and 40 years old. He was reported to be working on his thesis for his doctorate.</p>
<p>The University of Lorraine&#8217;s president, Pierre Mutzenhardt, said the man was enrolled as one of its students and had been working since 2014 on a thesis about North African media.</p>
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<p>He said the man previously worked as a journalist for North African media.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;There&#8217;d been no difficulties with him. Nothing strange had been detected,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p>His thesis director, Arnaud Mercier, told broadcaster BFM that the suspect spoke Swedish, Arabic and French and his CV mentioned that he had worked as a journalist in Sweden and Algeria.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;He was someone who believed a lot in democratic ideals, the expression of free thinking, in journalism,&#8221;</i> Mr Mercier said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Nothing, absolutely nothing, foretold that one day he&#8217;d be a jihadi who&#8217;d want to kill a policeman in the name of I don&#8217;t know what cause.&#8221;</i></p>
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