The main suspect in the knife attack in Annecy on Thursday morning, did not allow the police to extract him from his cell. His condition was declared compatible with police custody.

The Annecy prosecutor's office said that his motives did not seem to have an "apparent terrorist motive" The unknown man of the intelligence services and without identified psychiatric history ended up "curling up on the ground", says the Figaro a source close to the case. The expert psychiatrist who was able to examine him Friday morning, however, judged his condition to be OK.