The investigation progresses little, in the aftermath of the knife attack which left two dead Saturday morning in Romans-sur-Isère, in the Drôme. The main suspect, a 33-year-old Sudanese man transferred to Paris overnight, began to be interviewed. According to our information, he makes no statement.
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The terrorist classification used
The man should be the subject of a psychiatric examination, Sunday. The other two police custody take place in Valence and concern men who lived with him. They are also not very convincing for the moment.
As a reminder, several elements led the anti-terrorist prosecution to take up the case on Sunday: the fact that the man began to pray on his knees when the police were preparing to arrest, but also the detention of documents manuscripts attributed to him where he speaks of France as a country of disbelievers.
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Above all, the prosecution has retained its deadly course. He randomly killed on the streets of the city, behavior likely to seriously disturb public order by intimidation or terror, as the legal definition of terrorism says, whether Islamist or not.