Investigators hit a wall. After the arrest of the main suspect of the knife attack in Annecy Thursday morning, the officers of the judicial police thought they could decipher the reasons for his act. Why did Abdalmasih H. stab six people, including four young children playing in the gardens of Europe, on the edge of the lake? This Syrian refugee, wandering in France after several years in Sweden, has so far refused any cooperation with the police. The Annecy prosecutor's office, however, said that his motives did not seem to have an "apparent terrorist motive".
"Very agitated" at the beginning of his custody, the unknown man of the intelligence services and without identified psychiatric history ended up "curling up on the ground", preventing the police from extracting him from his cell and interrogating him, says the Figaro a source close to the case. The expert psychiatrist who was able to examine him Friday morning, however, judged his condition...
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