The premises of the Lyon police station. - C. Villemain / 20 Minutes

A 26-year-old homeless man is to be tried in immediate court in Lyon this Thursday for multiple reasons. He is first accused of having, Monday, voluntarily degraded a car for no apparent reason. According to the Lyon police, the individual kicked the vehicle before throwing a bottle in it.

On the same day, he then allegedly punched a customer in a grocery store in the face after stealing her cell phone. Arrested a few minutes later in front of the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu hospital, the man who still had the telephone in his possession was placed in police custody during which he allegedly declared several times "Allah Akbar, I am like the terrorists ”. Before hitting two policewomen who were trying to control him.

Criminally responsible

A psychiatric assessment was carried out but it did not raise any criminal irresponsibility, adds the Sûreté du Rhône specifying that the suspect has 15 criminal records.

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