Two police bikers were seriously injured. The act would be voluntary. – DR
- A 29-year-old man crashed into a car late Monday afternoon, police officers who were participating in a control operation in Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine.
- The suspect, known for a psychiatric history dating back to 2012, had said from the outset that he wanted to kill the police and be ready to die in order to achieve his ends.
- After an expert concluded on Tuesday “in the absence of abolition or alteration of the discernment of the defendant”, the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office said that it was seizing the facts.
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Terrorist act or madness? Monday afternoon, around 5 p.m., a man crashed into a car on two bikers of the national police who participated in a control operation with municipal police officers near the Yves-du-Manoir stadium in Colombes (
Hauts-de-Seine), seriously injuring them. After taking the time to examine the facts, the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office decided. With regard to the elements of the file, in particular the conclusions of the expert on the mental state of the suspect, he decided to open an “investigation of the counts of attempted assassinations on persons responsible for public authority in relation to a terrorist enterprise and criminal terrorist criminal association, “he said in a statement.
Youssef T., a 29-year-old resident of the commune, had been extracted from the damaged black BMW 1 series which he was driving by municipal police. Originally from Lunéville (Meurthe-et-Moselle), he immediately told the police that he acted deliberately after watching videos on Gaza. In his car were also found two knives and a letter of allegiance to the group
Islamic State, “In which the author of the text explains, among other things, that he was going” head on in the battle to impose sharia law on the whole earth, “” said Pnat in his press release. “It was also a farewell letter to his loved ones,” said 20 minutes a judicial source. Dressed in a dark PSG jersey, he was then taken to the police station to be taken into custody.
Psychiatric history
During his interrogation, Youssef T. explained to the investigators that he wanted to kill the police and that he was ready to die for that. Up to now unknown to the intelligence services, this 30-year-old was not the subject of an S card but was, on the other hand, known to the intelligence services. police and justice for acts of violence, dating back over ten years.
A search was carried out at his home, a few hundred meters from the scene of the accident. But it did not allow investigators to uncover evidence showing signs of radicalization. Forensic science experts are currently trying to get his cell phone and the computer equipment seized from his home to speak.
In addition, Youssef T. has a psychiatric history dating back to 2012. However, according to our information, he had not been hospitalized at the time. A psychiatric examination was carried out on Tuesday. He concluded “that there was no abolition or alteration of the discernment of the defendant,” said the press release from Pnat, stressing that his police custody was continuing. The investigations were entrusted to the anti-terrorist section of the criminal brigade of the federal police in Paris, supported by the police from the Hauts-de-Seine judicial police department, as well as the DGSI. Investigators continue to interview the relatives of the young man “to better understand his profile, to know if he was able to benefit from accomplices, to understand how his gesture was premeditated,” said a police source at 20 minutes.
Improvement of the victims’ state of health
The condition of the victims has improved. One of the two bikers belonging to the directorate of public order and traffic of the police prefecture had been transported in absolute emergency to the Beaujon de Clichy hospital (Hauts-de-Seine). He was placed in an artificial coma and operated on during the night, but his life prognosis is no longer committed on Tuesday. The second police officer hit, suffering from a fracture of the two fibulae, was meanwhile hospitalized in an emergency relating to Percy Hospital in Clamart. Finally, a municipal police officer who had been more lightly discharged left the hospital.
