In Nice, a bakery employee threatens his colleague to cut off his head and retreats with a knife. Registered for treatment with a criminal record but unknown to the intelligence services for any radicalization, this 31-year-old man was hospitalized in a psychiatric establishment.
The key to this attack was based more on a psychiatric disorder, the man was automatically hospitalized. The Nice public prosecutor's office specifies in this sense that the police custody of the person concerned was lifted "taking into account [his] mental health"