The 19-year-old man who attacked the Dieuze (Moselle) gendarmerie on Monday armed with a knife was operated on during the night. The vital prognosis of Mathias R., hit in the abdomen by the shooting of a gendarme he was attacking, is no longer engaged, learns 20 Minutes from sources close to the file. Slightly injured in the arm, the gendarme, for his part, left the hospital. The investigation, carried out by the Metz public prosecutor's office for "attempted murder of a law enforcement officer", is continuing but has not yet provided answers.
Originally from Puy-de-Dôme, Mathias R. joined the army in early December. The room he occupied at the Dieuze military training center was searched on Monday, as was the family home in Auvergne. But according to our information, the investigators did not find anything to direct their investigations towards the terrorist track. In addition, the young man was, until now unknown to the justice and the intelligence services.
Threatening phone call
A little before the facts, the gendarmerie operational center had received the call from an individual who "declared that he was a soldier, that there was going to be a carnage in Dieuze and that he claimed to be Islamic State, "explained the prosecutor of the Republic of Metz, Christian Mercuri. The magistrate "obviously took up contact with the national antiterrorist parquet of Paris" which will say soon if it "seizes or not" of the investigation.
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