Ndiaga Dieye, the perpetrator of the municipal policewoman of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, has spent almost half of his life in prison, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and became radicalized.
Since his last release on March 22, after serving his sentence, this 39-year-old man had found a job and a home, thanks to an integration association in this peaceful town in the suburbs of Nantes.
"He was a very discreet person," describes a neighbor on the floor of the small HLM building where he had lived for two months.
“He was very calm, but you could hear him talking to himself at night,” adds Jimmy, the upstairs neighbor, who had sold him his car.
"It's a failure of the judicial system"
Ndiaga Dieye respected an obligation of care and had not been talked about until his recurrence on Friday, when he stabbed a municipal police officer, less than a kilometer from his home.
Sequestering a young woman for more than two hours during her flight, the attacker then shot at the gendarmes, injuring two before being shot.
“It's a failure of the justice system.
He began to serve in prison at the age of 17, he was condemned all the time and it didn't work, ”laments his lawyer, Me Vincent de la Morandière.
“He went back and forth between the concrete of the prison and the concrete of the city.
He has spent almost half of his life in prison, ”added the one who had defended him before the North Assize Court on BFMTV.
Ndiaga Dieye, then already convicted for common law offenses, appeared before this court for acts of "kidnapping" and "theft with weapons", committed in Cantin (North) in March 2013. He was accused of having tied up a couple in their seventies with electric cables before covering them with a blanket and searching their house.
He left with a hundred euros and the couple's car.
Ndiaga Dieye experienced radicalization in prison
During the trial, neither the radicalization nor the schizophrenia of Ndiaga Dieye had been mentioned.
"It is someone who was looking for an answer to his discomfort, to his feeling of injustice in the expression of a faith and a prayer" but without sign of radicalization at the time, still affirmed Me de la Morandière.
A forensic expertise commissioned in 2013 also did not raise "no dangerousness in the psychiatric sense of the term and especially no psychosis", added the lawyer, referring to "family injuries" without saying more.
At the time living in the Paris region, Ndiaga Dieye had found himself by chance in Cantin, according to Me Galland.
Denying his participation in the facts during the trial, he was finally sentenced to eight years in prison, had appealed, then had renounced by admitting his guilt "and asking forgiveness from the victims", according to his lawyer.
Fiché for his radicalization
Locked up on March 9, 2013, he experienced radicalization in prison "strongly linked" to his psychiatric illness, according to a source familiar with the matter.
In 2016, the 30-year-old was reported for his rigorous practice of Islam and entered in the File processing reports for the prevention of terrorist radicalization (FSPRT), according to the Minister of the Interior.
He had also been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Born in November 1981 in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), Ndiaga Dieye, of French nationality, was "very little communicative" despite a family "which sacrificed itself to try to help", according to his lawyer.
"Nothing worked with him," regrets the latter.
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