A 31-year-old man, armed with a chopper, was arrested by the Vienne gendarmes around 3 p.m. this Tuesday, in Chasse-sur-Rhône, in Isère, after “threatening passers-by and employees of a company,” indicated Audrey Quey, public prosecutor of Vienna, confirming the information from the Dauphiné Libéré. “According to initial information, he made threatening remarks in reference to Allah,” added the Isère prefecture in a press release.
To try to control the threatening individual, the police first used their taser. Without success, one of the soldiers fired his weapon once. The man was injured in the hand and thigh. He was then picked up by emergency services and transported to Lyon Sud hospital, escorted by the police. His vital prognosis is not in jeopardy.
Two open investigations
According to local media, which interviewed witnesses to the scene, the individual acted “in the name of Islam”. “ [Cette] reference to Islam and Allah must be further confirmed,” underlined the public prosecutor who clarified that the motivations of the accused are not yet known and that hearings are underway. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office has been informed and is “assessing the situation”.
What is certain, however, is the “unbalanced” profile of the individual. “The man, already convicted six times and said to suffer from psychiatric problems, had been presented [lundi] to a judge of freedoms and detention in Lyon following similar acts qualified as violence with a weapon. He had been placed under judicial supervision despite requests from the Lyon public prosecutor’s office for the purpose of placement in pre-trial detention,” communicated the Vienna public prosecutor’s office.
Two investigations were opened: one for “violence with weapons” against the accused, entrusted to the Vienna research brigade and the other, following the shooting of the gendarme, for “use of weapons », carried out by the Grenoble research section.