William Malet, who admitted to having killed three Kurds in December in Paris, wanted to "
carry out an attack
", he explained during a recent interrogation, before qualifying his remarks and confessing "
sadistic fantasies
" coupled with a desire to commit suicide.
On the morning of December 23, this retired train driver went armed to Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) to "
carry out an attack
", he said on March 7 before an examining magistrate during a interrogation consulted by AFP.
An attack is "
shooting foreigners
", he adds.
He intended to commit suicide afterwards “
so that (his) death does not go unnoticed
”.
After his arrest, William Malet had already confided that he had gone to Saint-Denis to kill foreigners there but had given up.
When the magistrate reads the definition of an attack, he specifies that his attack "
is not really ideological
" and that he finds himself "
vaguely
" in the statement of an "
act that offends rights, the great principles, the traditions
”.
"Desire for revenge"
Following the psychiatric expertise carried out in January and this interrogation, the Paris public prosecutor's office, questioned by the examining magistrates on March 14 "on a possible reclassification of the facts as an act of terrorism"
,
transmitted the file to the public prosecutor's office. national anti-terrorist (Pnat) for evaluation, he said on Saturday, requested by AFP.
The Pnat, requested by AFP, confirmed that it had "
carried out an additional analysis to the evaluation carried out from the commission of the facts
".
“
In this case, it does not follow either from the declarations of the person concerned or from any other element of the procedure that his act was conceived and perpetrated within the framework of an individual or collective enterprise intended to seriously disturb the public. public order through intimidation or terror, even if it has in fact caused such a disturbance
”, estimated the Pnat.
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“
His
very disturbed personality
, which led the experts to conclude that his discernment was impaired, his fantasies of murder, his general hatred of foreigners, his desire for revenge and posthumous celebrity place his act in an exclusively personal approach”, according to the
Pnat .
The Paris prosecutor's office indicated that it had in fact "
sent on April 13 to the three investigating judges co-seized an opinion unfavorable to a requalification of the facts
".
William Malet therefore remains indicted for murders and attempted murders of a racist nature.
“
The progress of the investigation shows that the motivations for the act lie outside the political or ideological field
”, considers his lawyer, Me Clément Pialoux.
“
This is not a terrorist enterprise within the meaning of the law in force.
The facts are serious and must be judged for what they are
”.
A “political attack”
Me David Andic, lawyer for the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDK-F), remains convinced that it is a “
political attack
”.
On the day of the events, unable to carry out his project in Saint-Denis for lack of people and encumbered by his bag, William Malet returned to his parents in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris and went to rue d'Enghien (10th).
He kills with his weapon three people near the CDK-F, "
a den
" of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), according to him.
He attacked Kurds because he "does not
tolerate what they did with Daesh
", the Islamic State group, he explains to the magistrate.
"
They took a lot of prisoners and they didn't deliver them to Bashar Al-Assad and we get them back in France
".
The CDK-F, "
it's a very militant thing (...) it's ultra-nationalists
".
"
Sadistic Fantasies
"
Over the course of the interrogation, the 70-year-old retiree tempered his remarks: “
It was not an attack, it was an attack.
(…) There is no political side
”.
Questioned by his lawyer, he explains that the killing is "
the result
" of the burglary of his pavilion in 2016. He was convicted of having injured his burglars - he appealed - and his weapons had been seized.
“
Weapons were my whole life.
It's as if we had killed twenty people in my family when I lost them
, ”he confesses.
His personality is revealed during the interrogation.
Former paratrooper, holder of a pilot's license, he learned Russian and Hebrew, believes in extraterrestrials.
He matured his criminal project when he left prison (for having attacked migrants in December 2021), during insomnia.
He admits to having “
sadistic fantasies
”, dreaming of impaling people and having “
always fantasized (killing) people
”.
At his home, investigators found multiple drawings of naked men and women, in profile, their anus and heart shredded in red marker, some with other gashes on their bodies.
"
I know it was perverse (...) it was my pornography
," he admits.
He regrets having "
missed (his) suicide
" but remains "
rather cold, indifferent
" to the three deaths and three injuries he caused and fails to have remorse.
