Le Figaro Nantes
The man was very well known to the police for various cases of theft and violence.
A 50-year-old individual was indicted on Sunday March 24 for events that took place two days previously in the city center of Nantes, a police source confirmed to Le
Figaro
.
Justice accuses him of two attempted murders accompanied by two kidnappings.
His wanderings in the historic center, marked in particular by a knife attack on a passer-by, left three victims.
The first attack took place Friday morning, a little before 11 a.m.
During a brawl, the fifty-year-old kidnapped his partner in their apartment located between the Nantes train station and the Jardin des Plantes, then threatened and violently beat her with the handle of a knife.
The woman is hit in the face.
She screams and calls for help.
Alerted, his son comes to his aid.
He chases the man with the knife out of the house.
In the street, the man approaches a passer-by then attacks him with a knife for a motive that is currently unknown.
A slight injury
As reported by our colleagues from
Presse Océan
, the street attack then caused the emergency services and police forces to be put on alert.
A major security system was deployed in the neighborhood until the suspect was arrested around 2 p.m.
Barricaded at the house of an elderly neighbor, held captive for three hours, the individual tried to escape the English way after believing that the way should be clear.
Emergency transport to Nantes University Hospital, the passerby attacked with a knife was only slightly injured, despite a blow to the throat.
Interviewed at the police station, the suspect told the police he suffered from psychiatric disorders.
At the request of the public prosecutor, the judge of liberties decided to imprison the fifty-year-old at the end of his police custody, as part of the judicial investigation opened by the Nantes public prosecutor's office.
He was remanded in custody on Sunday evening.