The news agency AFP writes today that in August, a Frenchman who was hiding in a house in a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina was killed, when he shouted "Allahu akbar!" shot at residents and police.
On August 19, he shot with an automatic weapon at several residents of the village of Zovi Do, in the area of Nevesinje, in the Republika Srpska, and then exchanged fire with the police.
The attacker opened fire when several people came to "inspect" the abandoned house he had occupied. The reason was the disappearance of a lamb in the village, a villager told reporters.
Sent to check what was going on, a special police force unit negotiated with him for six hours and then killed him in an exchange of fire.
According to regional police commander Siniša Laketa, the attacker was killed because he "opened the door of the house and started shooting at the police, shouting 'Allahu akbar!' ".
The police found two rifles, trombone bombs and a rocket launcher in the house, but there were no identity documents.
The man was identified three weeks later by fingerprints, in cooperation with the French authorities. His name was Eli MD, born in 2002 in Langon (Gironde), the spokesman for the Trebinje District Prosecutor's Office, Srđan Vukanović, told AFP.
He probably lived in the abandoned house for several months, according to investigators.
The authorities do not yet know why he was in Bosnia and Herzegovina and whether he was part of a group that is being investigated, according to the spokesperson of the Prosecutor's Office.
The village of Zovi Do is on the "Balkan route" of thousands of migrants trying to reach Western Europe, AFP concludes.
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