He surrendered to police on Thursday after stabbing his mother seriously in the throat. A 30-year-old was indicted for “attempted murder”, we learned on Monday from the Lille prosecutor’s office.
“The person concerned has acknowledged the facts which would be motivated by personal and religious reasons”, specified, to AFP, the prosecutor, Carole Etienne, questioned on the presumed motivations of the passage to the act.
Converted to Islam
Asked by AFP about a possible radicalization of the respondent, she indicated Thursday that “unknown to the police and justice services”, he had “converted to Islam for a few years”.
The 32-year-old man, brought to the prosecution on Saturday, was remanded in custody. He had fled after the attack committed on the night of Wednesday to Thursday at his parents’ home in Wattrelos, before reporting to the police station in Tourcoing.
The 66-year-old mother had been stabbed “with a knife in the throat” and hospitalized, said Carole Etienne. According to a source close to the investigation, the suspect lives in Roubaix, which is part, like Wattrelos, of the European metropolis of Lille. It was his father, present during the attack, who gave the alert, according to the same source.