French authorities released the parents of Paris knife attacker Khamzat Azimov from custody on Tuesday, while keeping his closest friend in detention, a judicial source said. Azimov, a naturalised French citizen of Chechen origin who had lived in Strasbourg, was shot dead by police on Saturday night after stabbing a 29-year-old man to death in the Opera district of Paris and wounding four others in an assault claimed by the Islamic State group. Azimov's parents were detained on Sunday morning.



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