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The main suspect is saying "incoherent" in police custody, 24 hours after the fatal attack Villeurbanne, said Saturday the prosecutor of Lyon. While the terrorist track is not favored at this stage, the motives of the man who killed one person and wounded eight others with knives remain unclear. The circumstances of the aggression, they are precise. Europe 1 collected the testimony of Alexander, who filmed part of the scene.
Alexandre was leaving the Laurent-Bonnevay metro station, on the esplanade where the facts occurred, Saturday around 16:30. "There is a young man who came to me and said to me: 'Sir, we must go, there is someone who has a knife'," he says. "It was running in all directions, I started to move in. I took shelter, above, and there I saw the suspect running with the blood hand, and something in the He was being pursued by two people. "
"Some wanted to lynch him, others protected him"
"I filmed the moment the suspect was sitting in front of the elevator," says Alexandre. "His hands are bleeding, there is a person who is hurt around his neck, around him there were a lot of people who seemed to 'contain' him, we are going to say, there were some who were angry with him, who wanted to lynch him, others who protected him, it was tense enough, they were trying to protect themselves from him and at the same time to protect others to prevent him from starting again ... "
"I met his eyes and we saw that he was crazy," says the young man again. "It was a dark look, I felt like he wanted to run on me .... We do not measure what happens on the spot, I was very lucky, in fact. "