Probe opens into foiled attack on Paris train

Prosecutor says investigators believe suspect's actions, first-class ticket show premeditation

Minutes before he slung an assault rifle across his chest and walked through a high-speed train, the Moroccan suspect in the foiled attack in France watched a jihadi video on his cellphone, the prosecutor said in formally opening a terrorism investigation.

The actions by Ayoub El-Khazzani on the Amsterdam-to-Paris train and information from other European authorities on his travels and apparent links to radical Islam prompted the investigation, prosecutor Francois Molins said on Tuesday.