2023-07-15 16:51:10
During his arrest for shoplifting this Friday afternoon, July 14, Mamadou B., a man in his forties, told the police that he was the one who had pushed a 52-year-old woman onto the RER B tracks earlier in the day. He was taken into custody for murder before being taken to the I3P, the psychiatric hotel of the police headquarters.
According to our information, this same individual is a repeat offender. Indeed, in October 2011, a man named Mamadou B., then 30 years old, was taken into custody after violently throwing a young man onto the tracks of the Strasbourg-Saint-Denis station.
The victim had fallen, miraculously, into the anti-suicide pit and the driver of the train had had time to activate the brakes of his machine. The alleged pusher, meanwhile, was then interned in the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters when he made incoherent remarks to the investigators.
Individual matches station surveillance footage
The scenario therefore seems to have repeated itself on July 14, 2023, almost twelve years after the first facts. With, however, a much more tragic outcome and the death of this fifties. This Friday, arrested by a patrol from the Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) emergency police brigade at 3:40 p.m. in an Auchan store, the individual again made “incoherent remarks”, according to a police source. .
He would have explained in particular that he had hidden a bag containing knives near the Vitry tramway, wanted to kill children or attack the elderly. He would also have specified that he had already made a stay in psychiatry, relates a police source. The investigation was entrusted to the 3rd district of the Parisian judicial police.
A few hours earlier, at 9:30 a.m., it is therefore this same man who is suspected of having pushed a 52-year-old woman, of Algerian nationality, on the tracks of the RER B at the Cité Universitaire station in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. If she managed to get up, indicates the Paris prosecutor’s office, she “could not avoid the train – which was traveling in the direction of the north – which hit her”. The victim did not survive.
Mamadou B., meanwhile, physically corresponds to the CCTV images of the station studied by the investigators, confirms a police source. A search of the suspect’s home would have yielded nothing. The investigations are continuing.
In 2011, the 25-year-old victim had “really fallen in the right place to avoid being electrocuted and being crushed by the oar”, breathed a police officer at the time. “He did not see his attacker coming, continued the same source. He didn’t say a single word. He just walked over to him, grabbed him tightly, and threw him onto the rails. »
Raya, 14, caught at the same station
A “typical” case of the subway pusher. “You are quietly waiting for your train and suddenly a person whose eyes you have just met makes you fall voluntarily on the rails. The man arrested is not in possession of all his mental faculties, ”explained another police source to us.
In three months, the Cité Universitaire station has been the scene of two dramas. Last May, a 14-year-old girl, Raya, accidentally fell on the tracks just before the train entered the station. The young girl had not had time to get to safety and was fatally caught by the oar.
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