The 19-year-old author took a carpet and a Koran out of his bag just before being arrested. The victims are out of danger.
Around 10 p.m. Friday evening, a man attacked six people with a knife, including his mother and brother in Château-Thierry (Aisne), learned Le Figaro from police sources, confirming information from the prefecture. The individual first attacked the two members of his family, aged 46 and 11, at their home. The latter quickly went to the local police station and said that they had been “wounded in the chest by stab wounds by the applicant’s son“Said the prosecutor of Soissons, Julien Morino-Ros in a press release.
Meanwhile, the 19-year-old man,fled on foot towards the Marne, equipped with a rucksack and armed with a knifeadded the prosecutor. On his way, he hasbeat four peopleincluding a 13-year-old boy, he said. The author was subdued by the only police patrol in the town, whose members used their firearms seven times after being threatened with a “knife throw“. A video, relayed on social networks, shows the man kneeling on a small prayer rug. “He is prayingwe hear one of the police say. According to our information, the individual also took a Koran out of his bag, reciting “incantations“, just before his arrest, which allowed the police to control him.
The man taken into custody, the victims out of danger
If police sources evoke a potential radicalization, the testimonies collected “do not report comments made suggesting an act linked to Islamist radicalization or claimed as such“, tempered the prosecutor. This person has not been the subjectof no condemnation“and his behavior”does not appear, at this time, to have been the subject of alerts to the State services“, noted the prosecutor, specifying that”the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office” was “kept informed“.
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The six victims, aged 11 to 46, were treated in hospital, but their days “would not be in danger“, according to the prosecutor, “even if the condition of the younger brother of the respondent” need “more intensive care“. “All the victims were taken care of and their vital prognosis is not engaged“, had previously indicated the prefecture of Aisne on Twitter. As for the perpetrator, he was injured in the groin but is out of danger. Placed in police custody, he was however hospitalized and will be operated on during the day.
An investigation entrusted to the Creil judicial police branch jointly with the Château-Thierry police station was opened on the grounds of “attempted murder” and the opening of a judicial investigation is envisaged, detailed the prosecution. “Terrible evening in our city of Château-Thierry, which without the intervention of the national police, could have been much worse“, tweeted the mayor of the city, Sébastien Eugène.