This is the fear of many users. A woman died Friday July 14 after being pushed, “for no apparent reason”, according to a police source, by a man, arrested later in the day. At 9.30 a.m., as a train entered the Cité Universitaire, a woman was “thrown on the rails” by a man, reported the prosecution.
According to a police source, the victim was on the RER B platform heading north when he was “violently” thrust on the tracks. The woman got up but could not avoid the train, which hit her and fatally injured her, according to the prosecution. The victim is a 52-year-old woman of Algerian nationality, the police source said.
Arrested for shoplifting
The man suspected of the facts fled. But, arrested for shoplifting in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) by an anti-crime brigade patrol at 3:40 p.m., he admitted to being “the perpetrator of the events [le] Morning”, said the prosecution. He allegedly assured the police that he was “God” And “had to kill people”, by targeting “weak people”, according to a police source. The viewing of the CCTV images of the RER station made it possible to establish that he physically corresponded to the perpetrator.
He was initially placed in police custody as part of an investigation opened for assassination and entrusted to the 3rd district of the Parisian judicial police, explained the prosecution on Friday. But the continuation of his custody eventually “was considered incompatible with his state of health”. It was lifted Friday evening, the suspect having been taken to the I3P, the psychiatric hotel of the police headquarters for incoherent remarks.
According to The Parisianhe would have “explained having hidden a bag containing knives near the Vitry tramway, wanting to kill children or attack the elderly”.
Recidivist
Still according to the daily, the man in question is “a repeat offender”. He would have already been placed in police custody in October 2011 for having pushed a man on the rails of the Strasbourg-Saint-Denis station. The Parisian explains that the victim had fallen “by miracle” in the anti-suicide pit, also saved by a reflex from the metro driver who had managed to brake in time. Arrested, “the alleged pusher” had already been interned in the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters for remarks “incoherent” which he held in front of the investigators.
Update July 15 at 5:05 p.m.: according to Le Parisien, the suspect would have already pushed someone on the tracks of a metro in 2011.