The national anti-terrorist floor was not seized. The health status of the aggressor, reached twice by the response shots, allows the continuation of the procedure.
Le Monde with AFP
Five days after the knife attack of a police crew by an Algerian national, Monday in Cannes, a judicial information was opened, announced the Grasse floor, Friday, November 12. The judicial information has been opened by the heads of “assassination attempts on police officers” and “violence that has led to a total work interruption of less than eight days with premedial, weapon and police officers,” said the prosecutor of the Republic of Grasse, Damien Savarzeix, in a statement.
Monday at 6:30, a 37-year-old Algerian, which resides in Cannes and has an Italian residence permit, hit the knife, before the CANNES police station, two of the four policemen who were preparing to go. Patrol aboard a police vehicle. They were not injured, protected by their bulletproof vest.
The health status of the aggressor, reached twice by the response shots and who had been undergoing several operations, “now authorizes the recovery of the course of the proceedings,” added the prosecutor. The referral of an investigating judge is accompanied by a request for provisional detention, he said.
The national anti-terrorist floor is not seized
While he said Tuesday “that no part of the investigation” did not make it possible to establish a link with an Islamist organization, the Prosecutor confirmed Friday that the national anti-terrorist prosecutorist (PNAT) had “not” retained his skill “and that the Grasse floor remains in charge of the case.
Thursday, all the guards concerning the entourage of the alleged author had been lifted, leading to accrediting the thesis of a solitary act of a man who mentioned in his last hearing at the same time “The hold of a malignant spirit and the will to avenge the Prophet”.