A fifty-year-old resident of Brest (Finistère) was arrested on Thursday by the gendarmerie.
This fifties would have threatened to commit murders on the island of Ouessant, reports
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The day before his arrest, he reportedly went to the pier of a shipping company to buy a ticket to the island in question.
He would have announced his intentions to take action when he was at the counter.
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However, the information only reached the police the next day when the boat had already left Brest.
The latter had stopped at Le Conquet and around fifteen soldiers from the PSIG were then dispatched to the spot.
The 80 passengers were disembarked and then checked, but the suspect was not among them.
The man was eventually apprehended near a park near his home.
The arrest went smoothly.
It appeared that the 50-year-old had psychiatric disorders and he was therefore hospitalized in a specialized unit.
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