The investigation into the knife attack of several police officers in Cannes is progressing.
The thesis of a "solitary act" is privileged, announced Thursday the parquet floor of Grasse after the lifting of police custody of people arrested belonging to his entourage.
"The custody in the entourage close to the alleged perpetrator have been lifted and lead to accredit the thesis of a solitary act," said the public prosecutor of Grasse, Damien Savarzeix, in a press release.
The “summary” exploitation of computer media seized by the Nice judicial police “did not reveal any indication of a possible jihadist affiliation,” added the prosecutor.
The facts go back to Monday morning.
Shortly after 6.30 a.m., a 37-year-old Algerian resident in Cannes who had passed through Italy stabbed two of the four police officers present in a police vehicle in front of the Cannes police station.
They were not injured, protected by their bulletproof vests.
The crew was about to go on patrol when they were attacked.
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A knife attack on police in Cannes
Three people from the assailant's entourage, according to a police source, had been taken into custody, "a roommate, a landlord and an ex-landlord", according to another source.
Thursday, these police custody had all been lifted.
According to a source close to the file, a fourth person was arrested Tuesday morning in Châtellerault by the judicial police of Limoges and placed in police custody.
A still uncertain motive
The prosecutor of Grasse also announced Thursday that the psychiatric examination of the respondent concluded to "his full criminal responsibility".
"The motive for his gesture remains uncertain, the person concerned evoking in his last hearing both the hold of an evil spirit and the desire to avenge
the prophet,
" he added.
The assailant, whose life-threatening prognosis is no longer engaged, will undergo a new surgery, further indicated the prosecution specifying that the procedure will resume its course "when his condition allows".