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Louvre attack suspect refuses to talk during police grilling
The machete-wielding attacker who was shot by a soldier outside France's Louvre museum refused to answer investigators after being formally placed into custody at a hospital
Portraits of Abdallah El-Hamahmy, the Egyptian suspected of attacking soldiers at Paris's Louvre museum, are placed on a sofa at the family home in the Nile delta city of Mansura, Egypt
The suspected Louvre Museum attacker refused to talk to French police during two rounds of questioning, a judicial source said.
Abdullah Reda al-Hamahmy, an Egyptian national, was shot in the stomach and seriously wounded after lunging at soldiers with two machetes on Friday.
"The first interview took place this morning, but it turned out to be a short one. For the moment, he refuses to talk to investigators," the source at the prosecutor's office said.
The 29-year-old arrived in France on 26 January after obtaining a tourist visa in Dubai. Egyptian security officials have not said whether he had any known links to militant groups.
French investigators are hunting for clues to establish whether he acted alone, on impulse, or on orders from someone.
The attack was the latest in a string of assaults in France and thrust the issue of security back into the headlines three months ahead of the presidential election.
Investigators questioned him twice at his hospital bed where he is receiving treatment after his condition improved but he "still refuses to speak", the judicial source said.
