The man who seriously injured a parent of students on Tuesday during a Swiss knife attack in front of a college in Marseille was indicted on Thursday for “attempted intentional homicide” and imprisoned, the prosecution confirmed on Friday. from Marseille to AFP.
“The individual arrested was brought on Thursday, May 12, 2022 at the end of police custody and charged with charges of attempted voluntary homicide,” said the prosecution. “He was imprisoned in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution,” added the latter.
The victim between life and death
The vital prognosis of the victim, a parent of students in his thirties affected in the chest, “remains to this day very committed”, further underlined the prosecution. According to the first testimonies, reported by a source close to the investigation, the attack took place Tuesday at 6 p.m. and targeted a father of students who came to collect his children. From the same source, it was witnesses attending the attack who overpowered the assailant while waiting for the intervention of the police, who proceeded to arrest him.
Still from a police source, the aggressor, of French nationality, would have declared before the investigators to have acted “in the name of God”. He would also have mentioned “the devil”. But the terrorist hypothesis has been definitively ruled out by the investigators, according to whom the attacker apparently suffers from psychological disorders.