In the aftermath of the knife attack perpetrated in Villejuif by a young man suffering from psychiatric disorders and converted to Islam, the National Antiterrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) announced, Saturday, January 4, to seize the investigation. The attack left two people injured and one dead. The assailant was shot dead by the police after they were summoned, in vain, to throw his knife.
"If the significant psychiatric disturbances of the perpetrator are proven, the investigations of the last hours have made it possible to establish a certain radicalization of the defendant as well as an organized preparation for his passage to the act", explains the Pnat in a press release. The anti-terrorist prosecution adds that these investigations have also "demonstrated a deliberate and selective murderous path likely to seriously disturb public order by intimidation or terror".
"Extreme violence"
Initially carried out by the Créteil public prosecutor's office, the investigation therefore continues for "assassination and attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and "criminal terrorist criminal association".
The investigations were entrusted in co-referral to the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) and the Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police of Paris.
Earlier, the Créteil prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, had indicated at a press conference that Nathan C., 22, who suffered from a serious psychiatric disorder since his childhood and had converted to Islam in 2017, had perpetrated this attack of "extreme violence" with "extreme determination", acting "to the cries of Allah Akbar".
With AFP
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