The identity of the man suspected of having injured seven people using a metal hook “is not, to date, formally established,” said the public prosecutor on Sunday evening from Paris.
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The man suspected of having injured seven people, one seriously, Wednesday January 11 in the North Gare in Paris, was indicted Sunday January 15 for attempted assassinations and placed in detention provisional.
The prosecution had requested the pre -trial detention of this man who says of Algerian nationality and aged 31, but whose identity “is not, to date, formally established”, according to a press release disseminated by the Public prosecutor of Paris Laure Beccuau, Sunday evening.
“The investigations will now continue, under the direction of an instructor magistrate, and will notably be intended to specify the exact course of the facts, understand the motivations of the accused and to clarify the personality of the person concerned “, she specifies.
attack using a” metal hook “
It is shortly before 6:45 am Wednesday that the individual was “for no apparent reason”, in the words of the press release disseminated by the Paris prosecutor’s office, attacked with the help of a “metal hook” another individual In the station hall located in the 10 e de Paris, an hour of large traffic. He pursued him until the forecourt and gave him about twenty shots, injuring passers-by who tried to intervene to disarm him.
During his arrest, the suspect was touched twice in the chest and once in the arm after a police officer of the border police (PAF), in uniform and in service, and another of the networks brigade Ile -de -France (BRF), in civilian clothes and out of service, which were on the scene at the time of the facts, opened fire.
Injured, the suspect was hospitalized before being placed in police custody in the evening for attempted assassinations. His police custody was then lifted because of his state of health before resuming Saturday, until Sunday at the end of the morning.
In total, seven people were injured during this attack: two 41 -year -old men and 36, a 46 -year -old policeman assigned to the PAF of the Gare du Nord and three women of 40, 47, and 53 years old, all taken care of immediately by help. Finally, a 53 -year -old man, who left after the assault, was later identified by the investigators, said Ms. Beccuau on Sunday. 2> “known under several identities”
The identity of the suspect has so far not been able to be established with certainty. Upcoming investigations should make it possible to determine it but also to focus on possible psychiatric disorders in the suspect.
“It appears known, under several identities, for acts of violation of domicile, theft and rebellion, acts committed in 2019 and 2021 and would have been noted two obligations to leave French territory [OQTF], in 2020 and in September 2022, “said the Paris prosecutor.
A man likely to have housed the suspect was also placed in police custody and then released without prosecution at this stage. Another man, seen talking to him shortly before the assault, was put out of the case.