In Romans-sur-Isère in the Drôme, a few hours after the knife attack.

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The alleged perpetrator of a terrorist knife attack, which left two dead and five wounded in April in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme) is "accessible to a criminal sanction", according to a psychiatric expert report which makes it possible to consider a trial, we learned this Friday from corroborating sources.

In a psychiatric expert report, signed on December 5 and revealed by the daily

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, two experts conclude that Abdallah Ahmed-Osman's discernment was "altered" at the time of the events, while considering that he can be tried, a confirmed to AFP a source close to the case.

"Criminal acts that are both delusional and terrorist"

For the two psychiatrists, who met him on November 27 at the specially equipped hospitalization unit in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), Ahmed-Osman had “criminal acts that were both delusional and terrorist”.

“His actions (…) borrow the legitimacy of their vengeful hatred from radical Islamist ideology and its usual justifications,” the two experts wrote in their conclusions.

These conclusions "mean in the state that there will be a judgment, this is what the civil parties wanted for justice to be done," responded Me Guillaume Fort, who represents victims and families of victims.

Defense lawyers can request a second opinion.

"A fragile personality struggling to endure isolation"

On April 4, Abdallah Ahmed-Osman, a 33-year-old Sudanese refugee, stabbed a client of a butcher shop born in 1965 and a trader born in 1976. Five people were also injured in the attack, which took place in 'was held at the end of the morning in the streets and shops of the center of Romans-sur-Isère, during confinement.

Unknown to the police and intelligence services, the alleged terrorist arrived in France in August 2016 where he had obtained refugee status and a residence permit in 2017. He was indicted for "assassinations and attempted assassinations in relationship with a terrorist company ”and incarcerated.

"Handwritten documents with a religious connotation" in which he complained "in particular of living in a country of disbelievers" had been discovered at his home, said the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office.

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Employed in leather goods, he seemed to have difficulty in confinement and anxiolytics had been found at home.

Psychiatric experts noted "a fragile personality, struggling to endure isolation and remoteness from his country and his family."

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