Rescuers tend to the body of a man lying in a sealed off area of the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, on June 19. Pic/AFP

Questions arose yesterday over how a known radical Islamist who rammed a car into a police van on Paris's Champs-Elysees was able to hold a gun licence. Adam Djaziri, a 31-year-old who had been on a watch list for radical Islamists since 2015, was killed on Monday, as his car loaded with a gas canister smashed into the van on the French capital's most famous avenue.