He gave himself up two days after the incident. The man suspected of having killed a young German-Filipino tourist and injured two other people near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Saturday evening, December 2, claims to have acted“in response to the persecution of Muslims around the world”Franceinfo learned on Monday December 4 from a source close to the investigation. Furthermore, the attacker explained that he would have wanted “to die a martyr”adds this same source. In addition to the suspect, three other people, members of his family or those close to him, are still in police custody. Follow the live stream.
An investigation opened in Germany. The German federal prosecutor’s office announced on Monday December 4 that it had opened an investigation into this attack. The procedure, justified by the German nationality of the victim, will take place in parallel with the investigation entrusted in France to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office. On Sunday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he “upset” by this attack.
Police custody continues. Still in police custody, Armand R.-M., the man suspected of being behind the knife attack, did not choose to remain silent and “explains”, Monday December 4, Franceinfo learned according to a source close to the investigation. At the same time as his interrogation, another person is still in police custody, while the custody of the author’s parents has been lifted, according to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office.
“There was clearly a psychiatric failure,” according to Gérald Darmanin. Asked about the profile of Armand R.-M., suspected of being the author of the knife attack near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday, the Minister of the Interior affirmed on BFMTV Monday morning that the mother of suspect had not accepted the hospitalization proposal made by the DGSI, which “had proposed hospitalization by third party”.
A course consistent with the law, for Olivier Véran. For his part, the government spokesperson estimated Monday on RTL that “the preliminary elements show that the medical, administrative and criminal procedures (…) were consistent with what was possible with the state of the law”. Diagnostic “for a psychiatric pathology”he has “complied with what the law provides” and summer “closely monitored by the intelligence services”, continued Olivier Véran. However, “he could have killed, so that raises the question of how he was followed”recognized the minister.