The stabbing attack that took place this Sunday evening in the city center of Toulouse is clarified this Monday. According to our information, everything started from a simple story of cigarettes. A fight between marginal people then broke out and five of them were injured. According to the victims, the suspect uttered cries to the glory of Allah. He is a 32-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker who shows no signs of radicalization, according to the prosecution. But he is already known to justice.
It all started with an ordinary cigarette story. Result: five injured including three seriously. The circumstances of the knife attack on this Sunday evening, in downtown Toulouse, are becoming more specific.
Shortly after 7:30 p.m., the alleged perpetrator spoke to two women who were within a few meters of a group of homeless people. He wanted to smoke. They refused, he got annoyed. Very quickly, the other members of the group got involved and blows were exchanged.
The suspect then brandished a kitchen knife before using it for the first time. In response, the others struck the attacker repeatedly, who was beaten to the ground. But he managed to free himself from their embrace by using his weapon again before fleeing. He was arrested almost instantly by a municipal police patrol.
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“He repeated Allah Akbar at least three times”
Behind him, a pool of blood: five men affected, including three very seriously. One on the carotid, one on the left flank. A wound that goes up to the armpit. The third suffered from abdominal and costal pain. Finally, the fourth victim was evacuated by the firefighters and the Samu to a metropolitan clinic for a shoulder injury and the last person, who was bleeding very lightly, refused the care that the emergency services wanted to provide him. .
This man could have been heard immediately by the investigators on duty at the departmental security. Was he the one who heard the respondent shout “Allah Akbar”? Among others. “He repeated it at least three times,” said a source. But a priori, the outbreak of this terrible aggression is not to be linked with allegiance to any ideology.
“When he was transferred to the central police station, he said Kill me “
According to our information, the suspect, 32 years old, was not wanted and was not the subject of an S card. But his Sudanese origins and his flawed English complicate the question of the possible criminal or psychiatric history of this applicant. asylum. For the time being, it is established that he was already known to the justice system for acts of violence but without a weapon.
Anyway, after his fit of fury during this brawl that spanned several meters, from the Air France store to the Citiz hotel, he allowed himself to be challenged without difficulty by municipal police who were reactive following the report issued by the information and communication center (CIC).
On the spot, the police force drew their service weapon but the use of the sparkling girl made it possible to disarm the individual who then complied while he was being handcuffed. “When he was transferred to the central police station, he said Kill me “, Assures a police officer.
Another man between life and death, the other two seriously injured are saved
However, he refused to speak to female staff. While, paradoxically, he did not hesitate to approach the two young women to ask them for a cigarette. The 30-year-old is currently in the departmental security premises where the investigations are continuing. “This Monday morning, and subject to any change in the victims’ state of health, the vital prognosis of one person remains committed, the other two no longer in danger of death,” said Alix-Marie Cabot-Chaumeton, assistant prosecutor.
If the Paris anti-terrorist prosecution has logically been informed of the facts, the investigation is entrusted to the Toulouse police.
“A rather shocking scene”, says a passer-by
Sébastien, a Toulousain living in the city center who passed by there with his companion, will keep the memory of this Sunday walk for a long time. “There was a first altercation on the sidewalk in front of the Délirium Café, then the assailant injured a man in the shoulder. We didn’t expect to see a knife but after that we only saw that with the shining sun. The members of the group then chased him from a distance before gathering other ‘punks’ and fell on him at least ten times. And some got up standing on their stomachs or other parts of the body screaming He planted us! Then they collapsed to the ground due to their injuries and the police arrived from everywhere. It was quite shocking as a scene. And it’s not very reassuring to wander around town and run into someone with a knife in your hand. Fortunately, he was arrested, “said the young man, who insisted on staying put, at a good distance, while awaiting the end of this terrible fight. “If there had been a need to assist someone, I would have been there!”
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