By his own admission, released during his police custody, William M. had developed a “pathological” hatred towards foreigners.
Words that resonated on Saturday when the prosecution announced the interruption of his police custody for health reasons.
After a night spent in a psychiatric unit on the advice of a doctor, investigators were finally able to resume their work and question the suspect in the bloody attack in Paris, which took the lives of three people on Friday.
He was finally brought before a judge on Monday, before being indicted for murder and attempted murder on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nation or religion but also for acquisition and possession. category B weapon, before being remanded in custody.
We already know much more about the sequence of events.
According to him, William M.'s murderous plan was to materialize in Saint-Denis, where the suspect would have gone early Friday morning.
He would have finally changed his mind because of the small number of people on site and the difficulty of reloading his weapon because of his clothes.
Because his plan, he said, was to empty all of his ammunition before committing suicide with the last bullet.
A weapon never declared
After returning to his parents' house, he therefore set off again on foot, to the rue d'Enghien and the Kurdish cultural center Ahmet Kaya, whose location he knew according to his statements to the investigators.
It was in front of the establishment that he opened fire on the three mortally wounded victims.
He then heads inside the barber shop where he will eventually be subdued by one of the injured people before the police arrive.
The security forces notably found on him four chargers containing a total of 14 ammunition, a box of 25 ammunition.
The weapon used, purchased from one of the members of the shooting club frequented by the former railway worker, had never been declared or given to the authorities in connection with his previous convictions.
Before the investigators, the suspect indicated that he had always wanted to murder migrants and foreigners after being the victim of a burglary in 2016. Unknown to the intelligence services, he had been imprisoned in December 2021 after wounding two migrants with a sword and lacerated several tents of a camp in Paris.
The search and exploitation of a computer and a telephone did not reveal "any link with an extremist ideology", according to the Paris prosecutor.