The mental health of the madman of the rue d'Aligre at the heart of the investigation

• On Monday around 3:20 p.m., a 56-year-old Tunisian national took two women hostage in a shop in the rue d'Aligre.

• The first was released around 10 p.m., the second the next day, Tuesday morning.

• The man claimed to speak to the Minister of Justice and claimed to have been the victim of poisoning from his doctor.

The news was announced early in the morning by the Minister of the Interior himself. The man who was holding a 23-year-old young woman under the threat of a bladed weapon in a shop in rue d'Aligre, in the very commercial 12th arrondissement of Paris, was arrested without difficulty shortly before 8 a.m. The victim, daughter of the manager of this small hardware store, had been captive for nearly 17 hours. Her mother was released on Monday around 10 p.m. Both are "very shocked" but unharmed, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris, Laure Beccuau.

An investigation was opened by the head of “kidnapping with multiple victims” but “voluntary release” by the prosecution, which entrusted the investigations to the 2nd judicial police district of the police prefecture.

The mental health of the madman, a 56-year-old Tunisian national who arrived in France twenty years ago, will undoubtedly be at the heart of the investigation.

"It is someone whose psychological state seems fragile, it is on this point of his state of health that the investigations will focus", confirmed the magistrate during a quick press point at the end of the decision. hostages.

Wacky claims

The man burst into this family business in the Bastille district on Monday, around 3:20 p.m., and ordered the manager and her daughter to close the iron curtain.

According to the first elements of the investigation, he did not know the two victims.

Once inside, the man immediately asked to speak to Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, explaining that he had been poisoned by a doctor and wanted a trial to be held in order to be recognized as victim.

The madman also spoke with Me Sylvie Noachovitch, lawyer for Omar Raddad.

The latter told

that there was no question, during their telephone exchange, of his famous client.

The madman, in tears, sometimes "incoherent", wanted the lawyer to defend him in this poisoning case.

If the terrorist trail was quickly ruled out, the profile of the madman as well as his eccentric claims were immediately taken very seriously by the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) mobilized throughout the intervention.

The individual, a taxi driver - and not a magistrate, as may have been indicated at the start of the case - was known to the local authorities for psychiatric problems.

According to a police source, he notably harassed a general practitioner in the neighborhood on multiple occasions.

He lived in a hostel nearby.

Tedious negotiations

It is precisely because of this psychiatric fragility that the negotiations lasted all night. "For us, this is one of the worst configurations," says a police source. Quite simply because it is difficult for negotiators to anticipate the reactions of unstable people. Even having a simple conversation can be very complicated. Their objective is to bring the madmen to their senses, but we must manage to enter into "their" rationality. "

According to our information, if the negotiations struggled to move forward this night, in particular because of his extremely disjointed words, delusional at times, an intervention by the BRI was made extremely delicate by the fact that the man did not let go of a sole the young woman held against her will.

Finally, he agreed to leave the store in which he was holed up in the morning.

"It is always extremely difficult to deal with an individual who has a knife and threatens people, but he ended up listening to reason after long discussions", welcomed the Paris police prefect, Didier Lallement.

It remains to be seen whether the man can be considered responsible for his actions.

He should undergo a psychiatric examination within the next few hours.

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