Europe 1 with AFP 9:49 p.m., July 17, 2022
The 32-year-old man suspected of having stabbed three men, including a 16-year-old minor, in Angers, was presented to an examining magistrate on Sunday evening, the prosecution announced.
The investigation made it possible to specify that "the facts began following the sexual assault of two young girls by the respondent".
The 32-year-old man suspected of having stabbed three men, including a 16-year-old minor, in Angers, was presented to an examining magistrate on Sunday evening, the prosecution announced.
The investigation made it possible to specify that "the facts began following the sexual assault of two young girls by the mis en cause", indicated in a press release Sunday evening the prosecutor of Angers Éric Bouillard.
"Away at first, he returned armed with a knife around 2:50 a.m. (Saturday morning, editor's note) to deliver fatal blows" to three young people aged 16, 18 and 20, continued the magistrate, specifying that " three other people were more lightly injured by the same bladed weapon".
The suspect is granted political refugee status
In this case, the prosecution opened a judicial investigation for "aggravated murders by the commission, in the near future, of one or more other crimes", "attempted aggravated murders" and "sexual assault".
The suspect, a Sudanese political refugee, faces life imprisonment and the prosecution has requested that he be remanded in custody.
He was first arrested and beaten by people present at the scene of the tragedy, before being taken care of by the emergency services and the police.
Placed in police custody, but initially hospitalized because of his injuries, he finally began to be heard on Saturday at the end of the day.
A 32-year-old Sudanese national, who arrived in France in 2016, the suspect obtained political refugee status in 2018 "and is therefore in a regular situation (in France) until 2028", the magistrate told AFP.