2023-10-19 23:24:24
The psychiatric examination of the man arrested Wednesday in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) after having threatened with a knife the employee of a technical inspection center “concluded an alteration of his discernment” and “recommended his immediate hospitalization without consent », According to a press release Thursday from the Grasse public prosecutor’s office.
The events occurred around 7 p.m. on Wednesday when the victim, employed in a technical inspection center, spotted the presence in his company of a man with a prayer rug.
“According to his statements, he asked him to leave and the man took out a pocket knife while shouting ‘Allah Akbar’. The victim then retreated into an office to call for help and when she came out, the individual was gone,” Grasse public prosecutor Damien Savarzeix explained to AFP on Wednesday.
“Quickly dispatched to the site, the police officers proceeded to arrest the individual discovered carrying an Opinel type knife”, who was “placed in police custody for acts of advocating terrorism and violence with a weapon without total incapacity for work,” recalls a press release from the prosecution on Thursday.
A “media and political excitement”
Questioned while in police custody, the man denied the facts, continues the prosecution, which ordered a psychiatric examination. The latter “concluded that his judgment had been impaired” and “recommended his immediate hospitalization without consent”, which led to the lifting of police custody, adds the prosecution.
Thursday, the mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard (LR), denounced a “fairly grotesque media and political excitement with many sensational interpretations” around this affair after the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin spoke about Twitter) Wednesday evening “a very dangerous man, carrying a knife” who “wanted to attack an individual”.
Seen by many Internet users, the minister’s publication was widely commented on or shared. It was also featured in several media. Initially, a police source added that the events had taken place “in front” of a synagogue.
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Later in the evening, Mr. Lisnard provided details on the facts by commenting on the minister’s publication on let’s see an altercation (…) without an exchange of blows.”
“The site is 20 m from the train station, 50 m from the high school, 100 m from the police station, 200 m from the synagogue. The link with the synagogue is at this stage an extrapolation,” he insisted.
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