He has not yet explained his senseless gesture.
The man arrested on Wednesday, after the death of a 62-year-old woman run over by a van on the forecourt of La Défense, was still in custody this Thursday in the premises of the Hauts departmental judicial police service. -de-Seine (SDPJ 92).
This 46-year-old homeless man is suspected of having rushed on two pedestrians, around 5 p.m., driving a service vehicle stolen a few minutes earlier from a cleaning team from the public establishment Paris La Défense.
A crazy act that this Angolan in an irregular situation has not yet been able to explain, his hearing having been postponed due to his heavy alcoholism at the time of his arrest.
Not very talkative, the man would rather evoke an accident.
The two victims did not seem together
The investigators, for their part, dissect the many video surveillance images of the business district.
These tapes could in particular help them determine whether the homeless man, whose face is well known to regulars in the neighborhood, stole the small service vehicle with the objective of knowingly rushing at the two pedestrians.
The two victims, in fact, did not seem to know each other and weren't together when the van ran over them.
Literally run over by the vehicle, the woman succumbed to her injuries shortly after being taken over by the Samu.
In view of the large number of cases it carried, the investigators do not exclude that it is also a marginal of the district.
The 30-year-old man, injured in the legs, left the hospital on Thursday.