a man injures several people with a knife in the metro before being arrested

Police arrested a man who attacked several people with a knife in the Lyon metro on Sunday. Two victims are in absolute emergency.

In Lyon, police officers from the anti-crime brigade (BAC) arrested at the beginning of the afternoon on Sunday, May 26, a man who attacked several people with a knife in the metro, leaving four people injured. learned from franceinfo from the prosecution.

Two people are in absolute emergency, according to a source close to the case at franceinfo. The vital prognosis of the two victims, aged 16 and 28, affected in the thorax and abdomen, is not threatened. A third victim, aged 19, was more lightly injured in the arm, specifies this source. The fourth victim was also slightly injured, indicates the Rhône prefecture in a press release. Several witnesses, shocked, were taken care of “by a psychological support unit”specifies this same source.

The events occurred early in the afternoon between the Debourg and Jean Jaurès metro stations. According to the first elements of the investigation, the man manipulated his knife before attacking the victims. He did not make a specific claim and did not have a dispute with a traveler before taking action, continues a source close to the matter to franceinfo.

According to the prefecture, the man was arrested by the national police near the Jean Jaurès metro in the 7th arrondissement of the city, and was placed in police custody at 2:35 p.m., specifies the Lyon prosecutor’s office. The prosecution has opened an investigation for “attempted intentional homicide”.

Witnesses are being interviewed by investigators, a source close to the investigation told franceinfo. The man arrested, aged 27, is known to the police for common law offenses, but was not known to the intelligence services. The prefecture specifies that it “was the subject of several hospitalizations due to psychiatric problems.” Fabienne Buccio, prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, specifies that the suspect was subject to an obligation to leave the territory (OQTF) taken by the Vienne prefecture in 2022.

The Jean Jaurès station, closed to the public for a few hours, reopened at the end of the afternoon.

“The City of Lyon condemns this particularly serious act”reacts on X Mohamed Chihi, the deputy town hall in charge of security.