After hospitalization in the infirmary of the Paris police headquarters, the suspect’s state of health was again deemed compatible with police custody on Sunday. This may last until Monday morning.
The main suspect in the shooting that killed three people in the Kurdish community has been in police custody again since 4:25 p.m., BFMTV learned on Sunday. This measure was briefly interrupted on Saturday at the end of the day due to his state of health. The 69-year-old former railway worker had thus been transferred to the infirmary of the Paris police headquarters where he spent the night from Saturday to Sunday.
This Sunday afternoon, the police custody of William M. therefore resumed, it can extend until Monday morning. At the end, the suspect will be brought before an investigating judge on Monday for an indictment as part of the investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for assassinations and attempted assassinations.
“Depressive and suicidal”
To the police who arrested him, he said he acted because he was “racist”. On the morning of the incident, “he didn’t say anything when he left (…) He’s crazy. He’s crazy,” the 90-year-old suspect’s father told AFP, describing him as “silent” and “withdrawn”.
His relatives explained his “radical change in behavior” after a burglary he suffered in February 2016, said the Paris prosecutor.
“I have always wanted to murder migrants, foreigners, since this burglary”, declared the suspect in police custody, while describing himself “depressive and suicidal”.
If his entourage “does not know him to have any particular interest in the situation of the Kurds”, he told the investigators that they blame them for having “constituted prisoners during their fight against Daesh instead of killing them”.