Dear readers,
The first weekend of February was marked by a knife attack in the heart of Paris, Gare de Lyon, this Saturday morning.
According to the capital's police headquarters, three people were injured in a stabbing attack in hall 3 of the station.
The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into attempted assassination entrusted to the 2nd judicial police district.
The suspect's custody was lifted in view of his
“incompatible psychiatric state”
, announced the prosecution.
It was
“lifted following the behavioral examination”
which revealed a
“psychiatric state incompatible with the restraint measure.
He is therefore currently being cared for by the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters.”
The alleged perpetrator of the attack, Kassogue S., aged 32 and of Malian nationality, is according to the prefect
“in a regular situation in Italy since 2016, with a valid document issued in 2019.”
According to the account of a police officer present at Gare de Lyon, he set fire to his backpack on an escalator, then tried to attack a woman who was walking away from him at the time.
The individual then took a knife out of his pants, and struck a senior man in the abdomen who intervened, then allegedly hit him in the head with a hammer.
WHAT WE KNOW
In the rest of the current news
An S file arrested in Lyon threatened passers-by with a knife
Saturday was not spared since 466 kilometers further, in Lyon this time, Sofiane K., an individual registered as S aged 28, was arrested while threatening passers-by with a knife, we learned
Le Figaro
from a police source.
The man was also, it seems, suffering from psychological disorders: he was diagnosed as schizophrenic, specifies a prefectural source, and was followed in a Lyon psychiatric establishment, according to our police source.
Those around him reportedly told the police officer that he had recently stopped his treatment.
THE SUSPECT’S PROFILE
The enigmatic Hiromi Rollin, in the shadow of Alain Delon
Sometimes a concubine, sometimes a nurse, the Japanese woman maintained a mysterious and tormented relationship with the actor for more than thirty years, which ended with his brutal expulsion from the Douchy house last July.
The two complaints filed by the Delon siblings against him were dismissed on January 4.
Exonerated, Hiromi Rollin continues to hide, refusing even to tell her friends where she is.
“The Delon affair” has made her, more than ever, a woman in the shadows.
A character that we imagine to be manipulative, hungry for control and money.
Her place with the star still questions those who worked with her – from the Douchy staff questioned by investigators, to her cinema friends, including the star's children.
They consider this repudiated woman sometimes as the despotic nurse of the weakened Samurai, sometimes as his gentle and discreet companion.
OUR SURVEY
Hiromi Rollin and Alain Delon met in 1989. Personal collection
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Lava's treasure: "It's not a beautiful story, it's a nightmare"
Deep in the darkness of the ocean, where the waves blow forgotten myths and legends, lies a mysterious treasure shrouded in a veil of mystery and danger.
It is a matter that has spanned the ages, arousing the curiosity of adventurers and dreamers.
His name is Félix Biancamaria and he is a Corsican diver.
During a marine session, he found and then tried to resell with an accomplice a real treasure dating from the 3rd century.
The second part of the Lava treasure affair was the subject of a long procedure, lasting 13 years.
Esther Paolini / Le Figaro
In 1995, Félix and his brother Ange had already been sentenced to 18 months in prison for having sold or attempted to sell 78 pieces belonging to the Lava treasure during auctions in Monaco.
Since then, he has presented himself as the lucky owner of a priceless chance find.
Dive into the heart of a Corsican affair as we like it, where for two days the court tempers among the tumultuous waves.
THE TRIAL REPORT
Rape of a student and an octogenarian in La Rochelle: a repeat offender sentenced to life imprisonment
Aston Valin was sentenced on Wednesday January 31 by the Charente-Maritime Assize Court to life imprisonment.
The man was found guilty of the rape of Jacqueline*, 84 years old, and Marie*, a student aged 22 at the time of the facts.
Aston Valin (here in photo) is suspected of the rape of a student and an octogenarian in La Rochelle, in September 2021. Screenshot of a public photo on Facebook.
Three minutes.
This is the duration of suffering for Jacqueline* who was raped by Aston Valin.
While she went out to walk her dog as usual, this Sunday, September 12, 2021, at 6:15 a.m., she returned to her apartment.
Suddenly, an individual appears behind her and follows her into her hall.
The octogenarian is pushed, pushed to the ground and raped.
He puts his hand around her throat and whispers in her ear:
"If you open it, I'll kill you
."
Like Jacqueline, Marie* also experienced horror with Aston Valin on September 12, 2021. She explains having been hit and raped several times.
She has bruises, scratches all over her body and traces of sexual violence.
*First names have been changed.
OUR STORY
Yesterday's fact
The door on which Ghislaine Marchal would have designated her assassin.
Eric Gaillard
30 years ago, on February 2, 1994, Omar Raddad, a Moroccan gardener, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of his boss.
Widow of an automotive equipment manufacturer, Ghislaine Marchal, 65, was killed with a wooden rafter and a knife on June 23, 1991 in her villa in Mougins.
In the room in the basement where his body was found, two inscriptions written in his blood, with the wrong conjugation, seemed to designate his killer: “Omar killed me”.
Evidence or manipulation?
The complex file will experience many twists and turns and will fascinate the press.
Omar Raddad, defended by the star of the bar, Maître Jacques Vergès, was pardoned in 1996 and released two years later.
A first request for review of the trial was rejected in 2002. After the discovery of new unidentified genetic fingerprints, a new request was filed.
It was in turn rejected in October 2022, leaving definitive doubt about the guilt of the unfortunate gardener.
By our journalist Camille Lestienne.
On the agenda
Monday February 5
: Gérard L. will appear before the Moselle Assize Court for the murder of his wife committed in 2019, in Kanfen.
The 79-year-old man will have to explain the circumstances of his crime after half a century of living together.
Wednesday February 7
: Trial of Jean-François Étienne des Rosaies for tax fraud.
The former advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, stationed at the Élysée between 2007 and 2010, had received more than 500,000 euros in remuneration for having served on the bank's supervisory board.
He will be tried before the Paris Criminal Court.
Thursday February 8
: Trial of Nicolas Bedos for sexual assault while drunk in a nightclub.
The actor and director will be tried for
“sexual assault in a state of obvious intoxication”
, according to the Paris prosecutor's office
.
He faces five years of imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.
To read
If you're looking for a book to devour in a very short time,
15 Minutes to Save My Life
is the perfect novel to enjoy over a weekend.
We are taken back to the day of the Christmas market attack in Strasbourg, where a man decided to take the lives of five people in the name of his religion.
But the story does not end there.
Mostafa Salhane, taxi driver, becomes hostage to the terrorist who decides to enter his vehicle after committing his crime.
With a gun pointed at him, how did Mostafa manage to escape?
How was he able to keep his cool in such conditions?
“Black belt in karate, Mostafa Salhane is used to fights, but this one could well be the last.”
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Have a nice week !
Alexandra Perrini, news journalist at Le
Figaro
.