On Friday, a woman was quietly waiting for her RER B at the Cité Universitaire station (Paris) when she was thrown by a man onto the train tracks. The 50-year-old could not avoid the approaching train and was fatally struck. 20 Minutes reports on the investigation.
What happened Friday morning at this station?
Friday, national holiday, around 9:30 a.m., when an RER B entered the Cité Universitaire, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, a 52-year-old woman was “thrown onto the rails” by a man, explained the prosecution. According to a police source, the victim was on the RER B platform, heading north, when she was “violently” pushed onto the tracks, “for no apparent reason”.
The woman got up but could not avoid the train arriving at the station, which hit her and fatally injured her, according to the prosecution. The victim is a 52-year-old woman of Algerian nationality who was wearing a hijab, the police source said. The suspect fled before the arrival of the emergency services and the police.
The Cité Universitaire station was evacuated just after the incident and remained closed to users for several hours for the purposes of the investigation. Traffic was partially interrupted and then remained very disrupted all day. It was “restored on the whole line” at the end of the afternoon, according to a tweet published around 6:30 p.m. on the RER B account.
The suspect taken into custody
Arrested for shoplifting in an Auchan store in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) by a patrol from the anti-crime brigade (BAC) at 3.40 p.m., the suspect, Mamadou B., of Guinean nationality, born in 1981, according to Le Parisian, confessed to the police to be “the author of the events that occurred (the) morning”. The viewing of CCTV images from the RER station made it possible to establish that he physically corresponded to the perpetrator, said a police source.
The man was therefore placed in police custody as part of an investigation opened for “assassination” and entrusted to the 3rd district of the Parisian judicial police. For the moment, nothing has made it possible to establish a link between the author and the victim.
Disturbing statements from the suspect
During his arrest in the afternoon, this man assured the police that he was “God” and “had to kill people”, targeting “weak people”, added this source. According to the Parisianthe man also reportedly said that he had hidden a bag full of knives near the Vitry-sur-Seine tramway, and that he wanted to kill children or the elderly.
After a psychiatric examination, his police custody was finally lifted in the evening. “The continuation of his police custody was considered incompatible with his state of health”, explained the prosecution. The man was taken to the Psychiatric Infirmary of the Prefecture of Police (I3P), a service welcoming people “supported by the police, whose mental disorders may present a danger to themselves or to others. , with a view to their orientation”.
A “pusher” passive
The man suspected of having killed a woman by pushing her on Friday on the tracks of an RER in Paris, had already been implicated for similar facts in 2011 and then declared criminally irresponsible, a judicial source said on Saturday.
On October 2, 2011, in Paris, this man had “pushed an individual on the rails of the metro, but the victim had escaped”, according to the judicial source, which confirmed information from the Parisian.
In this case, following investigations carried out by an investigating judge for attempted voluntary homicide, a dismissal was pronounced in February 2013 “due to criminal irresponsibility”, specified the judicial source to the AFP.
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