Reminder, there was a knife attack in Paris the same weekend Kerry was doing his shadow diplomacy.
Perpetrator:Khamzat Azimov,(pic related) known to french authorities asva terrorist.
The 20-year-old who was shot dead by Paris police on May 12 after stabbing five passersby, one fatally was born in the Chechen city of Argun in 1997, when the North Caucasus region of Russia was going through a brief respite between two wars that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 2002, when Azimov's parents fled with him to become refugees in France, he was just four years old.
France's AFP news agency quoted a French investigator who said Azimov had been questioned by antiterrorism police in 2017 "because he knew a man who was in contact with a person who had gone to Syria" to fight alongside IS militants.
Other French media reports suggest Hakim may have been a link between Azimov and IS extremists in Syria.
In 2016, French police listed both Azimov and Hakim (best friend of Azimov) on a database of people thought to have a "propensity for radical actions."
Hakim had been placed under surveillance after marrying Ines Hamza, a woman from Paris who allegedly tried to travel to Syria in January 2017 to join IS militants.
https://www.rferl.org/a/paris-knife-attack-chechen-khamzat-azimov-profile-child-refugee-is-soldier/29228384.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Paris_knife_attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44096595