The investigation will be able to continue after the assault on the police on Monday in front of the Cannes police station. “The state of health of the accused”, wounded by two bullets, “now authorizes the resumption of the course of the procedure”, which remains under the authority of the prosecutor’s office in Grasse, announces the prosecutor Damien Savarzeix.
“The national anti-terrorism prosecution did not retain its jurisdiction, the Grasse prosecution therefore remains in charge of this case”, specifies the magistrate. Several police custody seem to accredit “the thesis of a solitary act”, and the “summary” exploitation of the computer media seized did not “reveal any more indication of a possible jihadist affiliation”, indicated the prosecutor as of Thursday.
The prosecution requests his provisional imprisonment
He also announced this Friday that “judicial information was opened at the beginning of the afternoon of the counts of attempted assassinations on police officers and of violence resulting in a total interruption of work of less than 8 days with premeditation, weapon and on police officers ”. An examining magistrate will therefore be seized. The Grasse public prosecutor’s office indicates at the same time that it requested the “provisional detention of the person concerned”. His psychiatric examination concluded to “his full criminal responsibility”.
Monday at 6.30 am, this 37-year-old Algerian stabbed two of the four police officers present in a vehicle. Faced with investigators, he “fully recognized the facts indicating to have been guided in his action by the” will of God “”, according to the prosecution.