The man suspected of having injured six people with a metal hook, one of them seriously, on Wednesday morning at the Gare du Nord should be presented to an examining magistrate on Sunday for his probable indictment, according to the prosecution of Paris.

Seriously injured by bullets by the police during his arrest, he had been hospitalized.

A judicial investigation for attempted assassination should be opened, according to the prosecution which will request the placement in pre-trial detention of the suspect.

His police custody had to be lifted due to his state of health, then it resumed on Saturday and was lifted on Sunday at the end of the morning.

The identity of the latter is not yet established precisely.

His presentation to the investigating judge and then to the judge of freedoms and detention should take place in the hospital.

Six people injured

The facts took place Wednesday morning, around 6:45 a.m. at the Gare du Nord.

In a press release published on Wednesday, the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau had indicated that this man had "suddenly started, for no apparent reason at this stage, to strike a first victim with his weapon, victim to whom he struck twenty blows with a "metal hook".

In total, six people were injured: two men aged 41 and 36, a 46-year-old policeman assigned to the Border Police at the Gare du Nord and three women aged 40, 47 and 53.

During his arrest, he was shot twice in the chest and once in the arm after a police officer from the PAF, in uniform and on duty, and another from the Ile-de-France network brigade, in civilian clothes and off duty, who were on the scene at the time of the incident opened fire.



He is "registered under several identities in the automated fingerprint file fed by his declarations during previous procedures to which he has been subject", indicated Laure Beccuau on Wednesday, specifying that he "could" be born in Algeria or in Libya.

A police source for his part claimed that he was a Libyan born in 2000 under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), which could not be implemented due to instability. who reigns in Libya.

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  • Justice

  • Paris

  • Ile-de-France

  • Police

  • Paris public prosecutor's office

  • North Station