A 35-year-old Sudanese assaulted a man in Nantes on Sunday, September 25 in the morning, showing off a knife and shouting "
Allah Akbar
", learned
Le Figaro
from a police source.
Alcoholic at the time, the suspect was taken into custody.
This individual, holder of a resident card valid from August 20, 2018 to August 29, 2028, is unknown to territorial intelligence.
According to our information, however, he is known to the police for carrying a category D bladed weapon, contempt, sexual exhibition and violence with the use or threat of a bladed weapon.
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The facts took place on Sunday, around 7:40 a.m.
A 45-year-old man is walking to the bakery, Cours des 50 otages, when he is bothered by two individuals.
One of them then approaches him and brandishes a knife while shouting "
Allah Akbar, down with the French, I'm going to kill him!"
".
In a drunken state, the man punches the victim's back and head.
Pursued by his attacker, the 45-year-old man finally manages to free himself and flee, while shouting “help!”.
Shocked but not injured, the forty-year-old contacted the police immediately.
But on the spot, the police did not find the assailant.
The suspect was finally apprehended by the police shortly before 10 a.m.: as he headed to the police station to file a complaint, the attacker again saw the man who attacked him in the morning.
Required, the police manage this time to arrest him, near the course of the 50 hostages.
The defendant is placed in police custody with notification of his rights deferred because of his state of intoxication.
According to our information, the man was the subject of a registration in the file of wanted persons (RPF) for a ban on carrying a weapon.
The investigation is continuing.