Faced with investigators, the alleged perpetrator of the knife attack on police officers, Monday morning in Cannes, “fully acknowledged the facts indicating to have been guided in his action by the ” will of God ””, announced this Tuesday evening the parquet of Grasse. Immediately after his questioning, he already indicated that he had acted “for the prophet”.
Hit by two bullets in the pelvis, this 37-year-old man was taken into custody at the Pasteur hospital in Nice. However, it could only be heard briefly, said a statement from prosecutor Damien Savarzeix. His interrogation to be interrupted “because of two successive surgeries”, one Monday and the other Tuesday.
He “had changed his behavior”
As soon as his condition permits, he will undergo a psychiatric examination. Hearings conducted in the context of “several custody measures in progress”, show that “the defendant had changed his behavior for a few months”, further details the prosecutor’s office in Grasse. The man “appeared disturbed, evoking the hold ” of a jinn ” which exerted a harmful influence on his life”.
A search, carried out on Monday at the home of the assailant, in Cannes, “did not reveal any decisive elements for the investigation”. And at this stage, according to the prosecutor, “no element of the investigation allows to establish a link with an Islamist organization”. The investigation is therefore continuing for the moment under the authority of the Grasse public prosecutor’s office. An investigation opened for “attempted assassination on national police officials” is entrusted to the Nice branch of the Marseille judicial police. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office always plays an observer role and assesses “the opportunity of its referral”.