Train attacker a suspected radical Islamist: French interior minister

French Interior Minister Cazeneuve has said the gunman who opened fire on a Thalys train could be a member of a "radical Islamist movement." Reports claim the suspected 26-year-old Moroccan was under police surveillance.

Speaking to reporters in Paris on Saturday, Bernard Cazeneuve urged caution about the identity of the gunman but said that he was suspected of being a member of a radical Islamist group.

"It is important to be careful about his identity which is not yet established with certainty," the minister said. "If the identity he has declared is confirmed, he is a 26-year-old man of Moroccan nationality identified by the Spanish authorities to French intelligence services in February 2014 because of his connections to a radical Islamist movement."

An armed man injured three people on a train traveling between Amsterdam and Paris on Friday. A group of young Americans – two of them off-duty soldiers - overpowered the assailant, preventing possible casualties. One of the Americans was among the two seriously wounded in the attack; a third is being treated for minor injuries...................

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