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Attack at the Gare du Nord: the suspect indicted for attempted murder and imprisoned

2023-01-15T19:45:38.047Z


In police custody since Wednesday, the man was presented to an investigating judge on Sunday afternoon.


The man suspected of having injured six people with a metal hook, one of them seriously, on Wednesday morning at the Gare du Nord, was indicted on Sunday for attempted murder.

He was imprisoned.

Seriously injured by police bullets during his arrest on Wednesday, this man whose identity has not yet been precisely established is still hospitalized.

His police custody had to be lifted because of his state of health, then it resumed on Saturday before being lifted on Sunday at the end of the morning.

Wednesday morning around 6:45 a.m., he attacked a first person at the entrance to the Parisian station, "suddenly" and "for no apparent reason at this stage", specified Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, hitting her multiple times. times with his weapon.

Three men and three women injured

A total of six people were injured: two men aged 41 and 36, a 46-year-old policeman assigned to the Border Police (PAF) at the Gare du Nord and three women aged 40, 47 and 53.

During his arrest, he was shot twice in the chest and once in the arm after a police officer from the PAF, in uniform and on duty, and another from the Ile-de-France network brigade (BRF), in civilian clothes and off service, who were on the scene at the time, opened fire.

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Gare du Nord: the assailant who injured 6 was under an OQTF

He is "registered under several identities in the automated fingerprint file fed by his declarations during previous procedures to which he has been subject", indicated Laure Beccuau on Wednesday, specifying that he "could" be born in Algeria or in Libya.

A police source for his part claimed that he was a Libyan born in 2000 under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), which could not be implemented due to instability. who reigns in Libya.

Source: leparis

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