[9][10][11][12] Immediately after his arrest, the suspect told authorities that he was carrying spray paint in order to deface the museum's artwork, an act that he regarded as a "symbolic" attack on France.

[16] French authorities say that no group has claimed the attempted attack and no link to extremism was found during a search of the apartment.

The suspect posted on his Twitter account in Arabic in the minutes before the failed attack in which he referred once to ISIL and also wrote, "In the name of Allah... for our brothers in Syria and fighters across the world".

Nonetheless, the magazine disclosed that the suspect was carrying "bombs of aerosol paint" intended to "disfigure the masterpieces of the [Louvre] museum".

[24] On June 24, 2021, Abdallah El-Hamahmy was sentenced to 30 years in prison with a security period of 2/3 as well as a definitive ban from French territory.

The representative of the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office underlines the preparation of the attack from abroad and the persistence of El-Hamahmy's ideological adherence to Islamist theses.