The suspect of Moroccan nationality was arrested while walking around with his father’s head in one hand and a knife in the other.
A sexagenarian was beheaded with a knife on the night of Saturday to Sunday in Saint-Priest, in the Lyon area. His 25-year-old son, arrested at the scene, was arrested, we learned on Sunday from concordant sources.
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The first elements of the investigation into this “murder by decapitation” show that the man placed in police custody “killed his 60-year-old father with a kitchen knife“Said the Lyon prosecutor’s office to AFP.
“A head in one hand and a knife in the other”
In the night, “around 2 a.m., the municipal police alerted the national police to the discovery of a decapitated body in a parking lot. City police report a man walking by with a head in one hand and a knife in the other“, According to a source familiar with the matter.
Police officers from the BAC, who arrived as reinforcements, managed to arrest this man.who tried to stab them, without hurting them“, according to the same source. According NewsLyon as he struggled in the face of law enforcement, the man allegedly shouted “God is great“.
The suspect, a Moroccan in a regular situation, is knownfor facts of common law, family disputes on the background of alcohol and narcotics“, according to the same source, according to AFP.
The man who was taken into custody is not known for acts of radicalism, also added this source. The investigation entrusted to the Rhône Departmental Securitywill have to determine the exact circumstances of this tragedy as well as its motive and deepen the personality of its author“, According to the parquet floor of Lyon.