It was disturbing listening that led to his arrest. According to concordant sources, M., the companion of Nathan C. the author of the stabbing attack in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), was arrested this Tuesday afternoon at Palaiseau (Essonne) by the police of the criminal brigade and the research and intervention brigade (BRI) of Paris. Suspected of threatening to commit a violent action, she was placed in police custody. A knife was found on her.
According to our information, this 22-year-old woman, very religious, told a friend that she wanted to commit "suicide by cops", that is to say die by police bullets, because she does not not recover from the death of his companion. Islam proscribes suicide, it is therefore by attacking the police that the suspect intended to kill herself. The call was picked up by investigators, who have since attempted to shed light on the motivations for the attack by Nathan C. and the drivers of his radicalization.
A carefully thought out act
Nathan C. and M. had planned to marry religiously in early 2019, but the imam of the Maison-Alfort mosque (Val-de-Marne) refused, demanding that they previously conclude a civil marriage. The national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office took up the investigation. Because if the assailant was suffering from psychiatric disorders, it appears that he was strongly radicalized, after his conversion in 2017, and had carefully prepared his passage to the act, leaving behind a will and emptying his apartment. His partner had been heard in open hearing at the start of the investigation. From a source close to the investigation, she is presented as "psychologically fragile".
One person was killed Friday after a knife attack in Villejuif and two others were seriously injured. After shouting "Allah Akbar", Nathan C. was shot dead by the police.