The violent attack on a septuagenarian and her 7-year-old granddaughter on Monday at the family home in Bordeaux provoked a wave of political indignation on Tuesday, but the family of the victims warns against any form of “recovery”.
The questioning of the suspect for invasion of residence, violence, attempted kidnapping and forcible confinement was lifted on Tuesday around 3 p.m., because he presented “major behavioral problems linked to a schizophrenic and psychotic pathology”, according to the prosecution of Bordeaux.
The 29-year-old man, convicted 15 times for traffic or narcotics offences, had told investigators “to be followed psychiatrically and to be out of treatment”, according to a press release Tuesday morning from the public prosecutor of Bordeaux. , Frederique Porterie.
He must be “medically taken care of” by a psychiatric hospital, said the prosecution, which took requisitions to “allow the resumption of his interrogation as soon as his state of health allows it”.
In a video posted Monday evening on Twitter by the ex-mayor Les Républicains de Bordeaux Nicolas Florian, which he deleted on Tuesday “so as not to fall into unnecessary controversy”, a man rushes through the door of a building then forcibly extricates an elderly woman and a child, throwing them violently to the ground on the sidewalk, before leaving the premises.
The family of the victims denounced, in a press release sent to AFP on Tuesday by their lawyer, Me Nadège Pain, “the media use of the images without their explicit agreement and without the slightest respect for the identity of the victims or their privacy. “.
According to Ms Porterie, the 73-year-old lady said the man “would have tried to kidnap the little girl” in the bourgeois district of Chartrons around 5.30 p.m. and fled by car because of the “barking of the dog of the foyer”.
The suspect was identified by a neighbor and “thanks to the presence of a videophone”, added the magistrate who specified that the two victims “suffered from bruises and abrasions”.
According to police sources, the attack took place when the grandmother was returning to her son’s home. The author is a homeless neutralized using an electric pulse gun, said the same source.
He was born in Bordeaux in July 1993, according to the prosecution. According to police sources, he is French and is called Braihima B.
A regional official of the Alliance police union denounced “an upsurge in acts of violence and crime of +12% since the release of COVID” in the city, where “all the police services” “are overwhelmed”, “despite the reinforcements”.
“These facts, of rare violence, must be very severely punished so that they are never repeated again”, reacted on Twitter the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
His Justice counterpart, Éric Dupond-Moretti, denounced on BFMTV “absolutely unbearable” images, a term also used by former mayor Nicolas Florian who called on Twitter not to “turn a blind eye to the reality of violence , in #Bordeaux as elsewhere”.
On the far right, Marine Le Pen on Tuesday deplored “gratuitous, unpredictable, increasingly violent crime” and again established a “link between anarchic immigration and the explosion of insecurity”.
The environmentalist mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, “extremely shocked by this aggression”, denounced Tuesday at a press conference “local and national, ideological political recovery reactions”.
The family of the victims also said they were “outraged by the political recovery that is made of this news item”, in the press release sent by their lawyer.
“It is perfectly indecent to use this news item to evoke an ethnic origin or to justify penal or migratory reforms. Justice must go serenely in its time in the courts and not on TV sets or social networks, ”adds Me Nadège Pain.