The attempted homicide is, for the time being, not sufficiently characterized in the eyes of justice. Arrested by the police on January 26 after acts of domestic violence denounced by his companion, a man had injured a police officer with a knife in a building in Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d’Armor). Did he want to kill the agent who was at the head of the column? Assure him not. “He explained that he did not understand that it was a police officer in the speed of their intervention and that he had not deliberately committed violence against them”, reports the public prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc Nicolas Heitz.
This evening of Sunday January 26, the police intervened rue de Gouédic to rescue a woman victim of violence from her partner. The officials had arrested the respondent in the apartment rented by the couple for the weekend. Armed with two butcher’s knives, the man “dealed two blows to the policeman at the head of the column, causing injuries to the neck and the back of the skull”, specifies the prosecutor. According to the images of the pedestrian camera and the first elements of the investigation, “the homicidal intent has not been sufficiently demonstrated”, adds the prosecution.
Opened for attempted homicide, the judicial investigation continues for violence having led to an incapacity for work of more than 8 days on persons holding public authority and violence against a spouse. In recurrence of acts of aggravated violence, the 21-year-old man was placed in pre-trial detention. The probationary suspension of a previous sentence having been lifted, he will have to serve a six-month prison sentence.