- Nathan C., a 22-year-old young man, stabbed several people on Friday in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne). One of the victims, a 56-year-old Villejuifois, died of his injuries a few minutes later, and two other people were injured.
- According to the first elements, the attack took place around 2 p.m. in the Hautes-Bruyères park, in this city located south of Paris.
- The assailant was killed by police from the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) in the neighboring commune of Haÿ-les-Roses.
- An investigation for "assassination" and "attempted assassination" was opened and entrusted to the Departmental Service of the judicial police of Val-de-Marne and to the Criminal Brigade.
- "It is not at all to be excluded" that the anti-terrorist prosecutor's office will seize the investigation, said Laure Beccuau, at a press conference this Saturday
In the aftermath of the knife attack in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), which cost the life of a 56-year-old man, Laure Beccuau, the prosecutor of Créteil returned this Saturday on "the course of an extreme violence and extreme determination ”of the 22-year-old attacker at a press conference.
The young man who attacked passers-by with knives on Friday in Hautes-Bruyères park led his attack with cries of "Allah Akbar", she said. The magistrate detailed the events, indicating that the respondent, who killed a man and seriously injured two women, spared a first passerby because he said he was a Muslim and said a prayer to him, before continue its murderous journey.
Follow-up in a psychiatric establishment
Regarding the assailant's profile, he was identified in particular by the presence of his bank card, it is "Nathan C., born in 1997". "His criminal record is not remarkable" said the prosecutor, adding that the young man is known for common law facts namely "drug use when he was a minor" and "light violence" during a demonstration Nuit Debout in Paris.
The attacker was followed in a psychiatric establishment until May 2019 and stopped his treatment in June, the prosecutor of Créteil said on Saturday. Nathan C., 22, who was killed by the police after his attack, was under psychiatric treatment "since the age of 5" according to his mother, said magistrate Laure Beccuau. He was also hospitalized several times, notably at the request of his parents.
"Her relatives are in full cooperation," she said, adding that hearings of her relatives and witnesses are continuing "in order to shed light on a conversion to Islam" between May and July last. Friday, the first elements of investigation had reported the presence in his bag of several objects attesting to his conversion: "works including the Koran, various works on the Muslim religion, Salafist works", detailed the commissioner. A "testamentary letter" was also found by the investigators.
The terrorist track not excluded
The prosecutor of Créteil said on Saturday that it was not "at all to be excluded" that the antiterrorism prosecutor's office would seize the investigation into the Friday knife attack in Villejuif, treated for the moment as a crime of law common.
"It is not at all to be ruled out that a referral to the National Counter-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office will take place if not in the coming hours at least in the coming days," said Laure Beccuau, adding that the psychiatric disturbances suffered by the assailant are not sufficient to exclude that he committed a "terrorist act".
Searches took place at his home, that of his parents, and that of his companion residing "in a department of the greater crown" where computer equipment was seized. According to the prosecutor, "remains to be perfected" and to elucidate several questions concerning "the nature of his radicalization", the "journey" of Nathan C. since January 2, the nature of "his contacts". There is "no demonstration of accomplices yet," she said.
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Villejuif knife attack: Man stabs passers-by, one dead and two injured
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