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Amor M. Ftouhi (Facebook photo)
Canadian authorities on Wednesday afternoon raided the Montreal apartment of Amor Ftouhi, the man charged with stabbing an airport police officer at Bishop International Airport in Flint.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, assisted by the Montreal police, searched Ftouhi’s apartment on Bélair St. in Montreal’s St-Michel district, reports the Montreal Gazette.
Montreal police spokesman Benoit Boiselle said the search was being conducted at the request of the FBI, the paper reported.
Lt. Jeff Neville, who was stabbed multiple times, was reported in stable condition.
Ftouhi, 49, made his initial appearance in federal court in Flint on Wednesday.
Ftouhi's Facebook page, which remained up on Wednesday night, says he was born in Tunis, Tunisia, where he studied at the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tunis. The page says he graduated from Collège O’Sullivan, a private, bilingual college on de la Montagne St. in Montreal. His last employer noted on the page was Industrielle Alliance, an insurance company headquartered in Quebec City.
Luciano Piazza, the owner of the 11-unit building, tells the Gazette that Ftouhi has been renting an apartment from him for six years, and lived there with his wife and children.
He described him as a very good guy.
Back at the Flint airport, a vehicle with Quebec license plates was towed from the parking lot reports Aaron Baskerville of WXYZ.
Earlier, FBI agents focused on the brown mini-van and carried away bags of evidence.
