A 32-year-old man was indicted on Sunday for "attempted murder" after the assault with a five-person hammer in a month in Bordeaux, the prosecutor said. The suspect, who does not admit the facts, has been remanded in custody. He was recognized by a victim and a witness and traces of his DNA were found on two hammers abandoned after the attacks. The man, Muslim, will be the subject of a psychiatric report. The terrorist track has been ruled out.
Sentenced 18 times for theft. When he was arrested on Friday, after hitting two people near the Bordeaux train station, he claimed to have consumed a large amount of alcohol, which the analyzes did not confirm. Originally from Mulhouse, the man was sentenced 18 times for robbery, physical abuse, narcotics use and traffic offenses. He left the prison of Gradignan, in the suburbs of Bordeaux, mid-October. At the end of November, a woman who was walking in the district of Mériadeck, in the center-west of Bordeaux, had been attacked with a hammer. At the end of December, in less than a week, three women and one man were attacked in the same way, this time in the station neighborhood.
Several assaults. On December 22, a woman was assaulted, then on Thursday morning another person was beaten with a hammer. According to the testimony of a person who gave the alert, she was taken to the emergency department of Bordeaux University Hospital. The attacker would have fled staggering, reported the newspaper Sud Ouest . The day of his arrest on Friday, a police device was deployed around the station after the assault of a woman, slightly injured in the head, and late afternoon of a man who was in his car. He was hit five times with a hammer. These victims had three to six days of ITT, according to the parquet of Bordeaux.