2023-12-04 09:35:23
The executive has been under pressure since Saturday evening, urged by the opposition to take measures. Gérald Darmanin demanded on Sunday evening that the authorities “can request an injunction for treatment” for a radicalized person being monitored for psychiatric disorders in order to prevent acts like that of the attacker of the Bir Hakeim bridge.
The Minister of the Interior spoke on TF1 after a meeting in Matignon devoted to security following this knife attack on Saturday evening in Paris which cost the life of a German-Filipino tourist and injured a British man. and a Frenchman. Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a 26-year-old Franco-Iranian, was arrested after the attack.
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The attacker “is an adherent of radical Islam and he is psychiatrically ill. He had stopped treatment at the request of certain doctors”, recalled Gérald Darmanin. “What undoubtedly needs to change – we saw it around the Prime Minister (Elisabeth Borne) – is that the public authorities, the prefects, the police can request, require an order for care, which does not “That’s not the case today,” he continued.
The alleged perpetrator still in police custody
Stressing that the “police officers were not doctors”, he argued that they had “to manage people with psychotic disorders and adherents to radical Islam”. The Minister of the Interior insisted that France was “permanently under the influence of the radical Islamist threat”. “We must have an extremely firm criminal response,” he said.
The custody of the alleged perpetrator of the fatal knife attack near the Eiffel Tower in Paris continues this Monday. A flagrant investigation was opened for “assassination and attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “association of terrorist criminals with a view to preparing crimes against people”.
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According to the first elements of the investigation, the suspect’s mother had indicated to the police last October that she was worried about her son – listed for Islamist radicalization (FSPRT) according to a source close to the investigation -, seeing that he “withdrew into himself”. This was indicated on Sunday by the anti-terrorism prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, who clarified that he had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
The police then tried to have him examined by a doctor and hospitalized, something ultimately impossible in the absence of problems, according to a source close to the case. His mother, moreover, did not want to request his forced hospitalization. A few days after his report, she assured that he was “doing better”, again according to the same source.
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