The man had been screaming at Akbar Allah before killing the two students (Video/Photo)

The alleged Ahmed Hanachi as an Islamic killed the Mauranne and Laura cousins, both 20 years old, outside the main train station in town before he was shot to death by soldiers, Periscope broadcast “Daily Mail”.

Last night it turned out that he had been arrested seven times since 2005, giving officials a false identity in any case, he has managed to be released.

He was arrested for theft at a store and released the day before the attack by giving police a fake name as he had done in meetings in the past with other police officers.

French authorities are studying the suspect's cell phone and working to determine whether he had direct connections with I SISwin, who took responsibility for Sunday's strike.

The striker did not have any previous sentences in France, Molins said. The most recent human arrest took place in the Lyon area on Friday, just two days before the two murders.

The man was held at night for stealing the store, then released on Saturday and the charges were dropped, Molins said.

Yvon Berland, president of the University of Marseilles where he studied Mauranne, said she was an excellent student who would have enjoyed an excellent professional future.

Laura was in the second year of a course that qualified as a nurse in Lyon and was also a scout leader, having joined the observer movement as a volunteer three years ago./Periscopi/