A 39-year-old man was placed in a psychiatric hospital on Saturday evening, suspected of having wanted to attack police and civilians in Laon (Aisne), reports
L'Union
.
The respondent had been arrested a few hours earlier in possession of a bag containing a knife and a Koran.
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The police had been looking for him since 10 a.m. this Sunday morning, alerted by one of his relatives. He would have expressed his desire to "
kill police officers and civilians
", then to commit suicide, according to information from Europe 1. At the same time, he went to the mosque on Friday, which he did not was not used to doing in his daily life. The police finally arrested the individual around 2:30 p.m., following a call from a worried woman because a man was jostling passers-by on the station esplanade.
Already known for acts of common law, the man was not on file for radicalization.
Placed in police custody,
“the individual was hospitalized given his psychiatric state
”, indicated the prosecutor of the Republic of Laon Guillaume Donnadieu.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the judicial police of Amiens.
