Attack of Metro de Lyon: hearing tense on criminal irresponsibility

Called at the hearing ruling on the presumed author of an assassination and thirteen attempts, the psychiatrist experts disagree on the legal consequences of caving cannabis in the process of abolition of discernment.

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The discussion on criminal irresponsibility invited through a quarrel of experts, at the hearing of the Lyon Chamber, Friday, February 11, relating to the case of Sultan Mohamed Niazi, 36 Years, designated author of the bloody knife attack, perpetrated on August 31, 2019 at Laurent-Bonnevay Metro Station in Villeurbanne (Metropolis de Lyon). Everything by observing him the assassination and thirteen attempts to assassinate, the Advocate General, Olivier Nagabbo, required the accused’s hospitalization of the accused, recognizing his criminal irresponsibility, caused by the abolition of his discernment. The decision will be rendered on March 29th.

Three colleges of experts concluded with the total abolition of this Afghan, who killed a young traveler and seriously injured thirteen people, blindly striking with a kitchen knife and a barbecue fork, and shouting ” Allahu Akbar ! “. Voice in the head, poisoned stings, visual hallucination, false bodily sensations, all the clinical signs of the schizophrenia “with mystical connotations” were gathered in the head of young Afghan, according to three psychiatrists convened at the hearing. Identified in five European countries between 2009 and 2017, hosted near Lyon under the subsidiary protection of the French Refugee and Stateless Protection Office (OFPRA), Sultan Niazi dragged his illness in his global wander, before a crisis breaks out, for a delirious pattern.

“His behavior is unpredictable and dangerous”, insisted Dr. Jean Canterino, excluding any possibility of simulation. Faced with victims waiting for explanations – numerous and sometimes standing in the Little Court of Court of Appeal of Lyon -, the doctor explained that a schizophrenic could implement a very consistently coherent organization. For example, carrying and hiding weapons under a coat, as was the case in Villeurbanne. “A passer-by can suddenly become the face of the devil it must eliminate in his mind off reality,” said the doctor.

“I rarely saw such a level of danger”

This process has probably been fatal to Timothy Bonnet, 19, mortally struck in the back as he went to a music concert. “I saw his face differently,” said Sultan Niazi, in his rare disengaged, translated from the Pachtoune.

“I have rarely seen such a level of danger,” said Dr. Thierry Broom. While sharing the clinical picture of a “acute schizophrenic disorder”, Dr. Natalie Giloux is the only practitioner to mention the simple “alteration of discernment”, because of the author’s cannabis consumption. “He knows that the drug is dangerous. If the addiction is involved in the emergence of his illness, it has to lead to a small responsibility,” said the psychiatrist, in office at the Vinatier Hospital. Lyon, worried about the rise of toxic in the causes of aggression. “Toxic toxicity promotes the passage to the act. Patients are needed to be confronted with the law. I give you my testimony of doctor,” said Dr. Giloux, explaining that the sanction could promote therapeutic progress.

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