Aggressor of Gare du Nord was threatened with expulsion

The man suspected of having injured six people Wednesday morning and whose identity remains uncertain comes from Libya, a country towards which the French authorities do not express because of the political instability which reigns there.

by Christophe Ayad

The strange assault, including the Gare du Nord, in Paris, was theater on Wednesday January 11 at dawn, put the question of the obligations to leave French territory (OQTF) no on the scene (OQTF) executed. She also led to the opening of a second investigation into the leaks that led to the broadcast of an extract from the video surveillance images capturing part of the crochet attack.

It is, in fact, a little before 6:45 am that an individual suddenly and “for no apparent reason”, in the words of the press release disseminated by the Paris prosecutor’s office, attacked with the help of an object Transformed into a white weapon another individual in the hall of the station located in the 10 e arrondissement of Paris, an hour of large traffic. He pursued him until the forecourt and gave him twenty shots, injuring passers -by who tried to intervene to disarm him. 2> “recorded under several identities”

The aggressor used a “metal hook”, surrounded by rope at its base for better grip. He has, in a very brief period of time, injured six people: two 41 -year -old men and 36 – the latter, the most seriously touched, was hospitalized but his days are not in danger – a 46 -year -old policeman Assigned to the border police (PAF) of the North Station and three women aged 40, 47 and 53 years old.

Two PAF police officers, who were on the patrol at the Eurostar access staircase, were indeed intervened. One of the two tried to belt the aggressor, but he was injured. The other then fired on the individual. According to the story delivered by Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, who went very quickly to the scene, a third police officer from the police headquarters, in civilian clothes, out of service, attracted by noise, rushed and made Fire in turn with the weapon he was carrying on him.

The attacker was injured by three bullets, twice in the chest and once on the arm. He was hospitalized. “He could not be auditioned given his state of health,” said Laure Beccuau, the Paris prosecutor, who went to the scene in his press release.

The identity of the individual could not be established with certainty. According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, “it could be a man born in Libya or Algeria and [aged] in his twenties”. The suspect is “recorded under several identities in the automated file of fingerprints fed by his declarations in previous procedures which he was subject”.

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