The man who stabbed four people on Monday evening in a Lidl supermarket in Jeumont, in the North, is a regular Moroccan national, unknown to the police and with a schizophrenic profile, we learned. , Tuesday, from a police source. Medicines were found at his home, according to a source familiar with the matter.
A source close to the investigation said he was still hospitalized after attempting to slit his throat and wrists with one of his weapons. If his motives remain unknown, “at no time was there a religious demonstration” on his part, said the police source.
Equipped with a chopper and two knives
The facts took place in the early evening, when the man entered the Lidl store equipped with a chopper and two knives, before attacking customers, another police source said on Monday. About ten people were present in the store.
According to the source close to the investigation, the attacker first strikes a client in the head, injuring another in the hand. He then goes after another client, whom he also strikes in the head. A man then throws bottles of champagne at the attacker, who falls, according to the same source.
He then escapes through an emergency exit, before slashing his wrists and neck, she continued. “Let me die,” he says to a policeman who discovers him hidden behind a low wall and finds that he is seriously injured.
Firefighters said Monday evening that two seriously injured victims had been transported to Valenciennes hospital. Their days are not in danger. The author was airlifted to the Lille University Hospital. According to the source close to the investigation, two other victims went to Maubeuge hospital: one was hit in the head, the other lost his ring finger and his middle finger was severed.