Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credits: Jeff PACHOUD / AFP 16:57 p.m., October 13, 2023
According to several police sources, a man known for "radicalization" was arrested and placed in custody for carrying a prohibited weapon in Limay (Yvelines) on Friday afternoon at the exit of a prayer room. The arrest comes a few hours after a knife attack in Arras.A man known for "radicalisation" was arrested and placed in police custody for carrying a prohibited weapon in Limay in the Yvelines on Friday afternoon at the exit of a prayer room, police sources told AFP, confirming a report by BFMTV. The Versailles prosecutor's office confirmed the arrest of an individual in the city and indicated that "a police custody [was] underway, managed by the police station of Mantes-la-Jolie for carrying a category D weapon" as part of an investigation opened on this count.
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The individual was coming out of a prayer room
The weapon held by the arrested man is "a priori a kitchen knife", added the public prosecutor's office, which did not confirm the exact location or give further details about the circumstances of the arrest. According to police sources, the arrest took place at 15 p.m. on Friday near the Condorcet high school, as the individual was leaving a prayer room. The same sources told AFP that the individual was known for "radicalisation".
Earlier in the day, a man on the radicalization file stabbed a teacher to death and seriously injured two people at a secondary school in Arras, northern France.