Sultan Niazi sowed panic near the Laurent Bonnevay metro station in Villeurbanne by killing a 19-year-old young man and injuring 8 other people on August 31, 2019.
The Lyon public prosecutor's office agreed with the opinion of psychiatric experts.
He asks that the alleged perpetrator be found to be criminally irresponsible because of the abolition of his discernment at the time of the facts.
Sultan Niazi, who had randomly stabbed 8 people and killed a 19-year-old young man at the exit of a metro station in Villeurbanne, will not be tried.
Two years after the facts, justice is preparing to declare him irresponsible on the penal level, considering that his discernment was abolished.
The Lyon public prosecutor's office made its final indictment based on the opinion of the psychiatric experts appointed during the investigation.
Three of them, out of four, made this diagnosis about the respondent, explaining that he presented in particular severe personality disorders.
The prosecution requested referral to the investigating chamber for the purpose of ruling on the irresponsibility of the thirty-something, as required by the procedure in such a case.
"It is difficult to go against these fairly unanimous opinions, we are counting a lot on the hearing so that the victims can express themselves, and understand the judicial progress of this case", comments Frédéric Lalliard, lawyer of two civil parties.
Paranoid schizophrenia
The prosecution also requested that the author of Afghan nationality and aged about thirty, be fully hospitalized.
During his police custody, he had already made "confused and incoherent" remarks.
During the investigation, Sultan Niazi, who was a heavy user of cannabis, admitted to the facts by explaining that he had heard voices in the earphones of his phone and that he felt persecuted, persuaded to have suffered injections. during a stay in England.
Witnesses heard him shout "allah akbar" but his delusional words, even tinged with religious vocabulary, were attributed to a pathology of the "paranoid schizophrenic" type.
Armed with two knives and a barbecue fork, the assailant was stationed on August 31, 2019 at the Laurent Bonnevay metro station.
He had beaten several victims fiercely, for example attacking an elderly lady.
Arrived in Lyon in 2017
Passed through several European countries under different identities, where his age varies from 30 to 35, he says he left Afghanistan as a teenager due to pressure from the Taliban on his family, and crossed Iran, Turkey and Greece.
Its trace was detected in 2009 in Bruges (Belgium), then in Calais and Great Britain in 2010, and finally in Germany in 2015.
He would then have lived clandestinely in Paris, before arriving in the Lyon region in 2017, where he had made an asylum request.
Witnesses reported signs of mental health problems during his accommodation but no follow-up was initiated
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