A 25-year-old young man, arrested and then placed in police custody after beheading his father with a knife on the night of Saturday to Sunday in Saint-Priest, near Lyon, was indicted for "murder on ascendant “And imprisoned on Monday, we learned from the Lyon prosecutor’s office.

“Both before the investigators and before the investigating judge, the defendant admitted the facts with which he is accused while providing confused explanations questioning potential psychiatric disorders,” he said in a press release.

"These disorders, also observed by the doctors required to check the compatibility of his state of health with the regime of his police custody, led the magistrates to request a psychiatric examination of the person concerned at the time of his incarceration in the House of judgment of Corbas (Rhône) so that detention in a specially equipped hospital unit can be considered by the prison administration”, added the same source.

Arrested head by hand

The criminal procedure is now continuing "within the framework of this instruction in order in particular to understand the reasons for this passage to the act and to deepen by means of psychiatric and psychological expertise the knowledge of the personality of the indicted".

The defendant was arrested last Sunday shortly after 2 a.m. by Bac police officers after being seen by municipal agents, walking with his head in one hand and a knife in the other, after the discovery of the decapitated body of his father, 60, in a parking lot.

The young man allegedly tried to stab the police, "without hurting them", according to a source close to the case, adding that the suspect, a Moroccan in a regular situation, was previously known for acts of common law, family disputes on the background of alcohol and narcotics.

The investigation was entrusted to the Sûreté départementale du Rhône.

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