Five days after the attack at Lyon station, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) rules out the terrorist trail at this stage.
The question of his resumption of the file has been debated for several days.
He justified his position to BFMTV explaining that all the conditions are not met.
In an explanation provided to Le Parisien, the PNAT indicates that “the analysis of the elements collected during the flagrant investigation does not make it possible to determine that the act was committed with a view to seriously disturbing public order by the intimidation or terror.
Furthermore, “it appears that the person concerned, whose psychiatric disorders are otherwise indisputable, acted in a dynamic of personal revenge.
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The anti-terrorism prosecution highlights the psychological problems of the person concerned which he reported to the police upon his arrest.
According to him, it is this point, rather than adherence to an ideology, which would explain his actions.
The motivations of the alleged perpetrator are also found in his family situation.
Aged 32, of Malian origin and with valid Italian papers, he denounces, among other things, the conditions that France allegedly used from his grandfather, at a time when colonization was still in place.
Videos that caused trouble
On Tuesday, he was indicted for aggravated attempted murder and imprisoned.
A judicial investigation was opened "on the offenses of attempted assassination and violence with weapons, aggravated by the circumstance that the acts were preceded, accompanied or followed by remarks which establish that they were committed against the victims due to of their belonging (…) to an alleged race, ethnicity, nation or specific religion.”
In recent months, the attacker had posted videos online which caused trouble.
Some justify the use of violence with a geopolitical argument.
He also discusses Malian politics and threatens the French and President Emmanuel Macron.
“I am not French, I do not dream of being French, I do not like France, I hate all French people.
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“The French took my grandparents hostage for slavery,” he said.
“It was the French who forced my grandparents to do forced labor to be able to settle their accounts, their economy,” he believes.
“Sometimes you have to attack, you shouldn't always wait for the principle of reciprocity.
Sometimes you have to attack to be able to dominate your own enemy, to be able to scare your enemy, to threaten your enemy,” he also says.