William Malet, who admitted to having killed three Kurds in December in Paris, wanted to “carry out an attack”, he explained during a recent interrogation, before qualifying his remarks and confessing “sadistic fantasies” coupled with a desire to commit suicide.
After his arrest, the suspect William Malet had already confided that he had gone to Saint-Denis to kill foreigners there but had given up. When the magistrate reads the definition of an attack, he specifies that his attack “is not really ideological” and that he finds himself “vaguely” in the statement of an “act which offends rights, the great principles, the traditions”.
“Make an attack”
On the morning of December 23, this retired train driver went armed to Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) to “carry out an attack”, he said on March 7 before an examining magistrate during a interrogation consulted by AFP. An attack is “shooting foreigners”, he adds. He intended to commit suicide afterwards “so that (his) death does not go unnoticed”.
On the day of the events, unable to carry out his project in Saint-Denis for lack of people and encumbered by his bag, William Malet returned to his parents in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris and went to rue d’Enghien (10th). He kills with his weapon three people near the CDK-F, “a den” of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to him. He attacked Kurds because he “does not tolerate what they did with Daesh”, the Islamic State group, he explains to the magistrate. “They took a lot of prisoners and they didn’t deliver them to Bashar al-Assad and we get them back in France”. The CDK-F, “it’s a very militant thing (…) it’s ultra-nationalists”.
“There is no political side”
Following the psychiatric expertise carried out in January and this interrogation, the Paris public prosecutor’s office, questioned by the examining magistrates on March 14 “on a possible reclassification of the facts as an act of terrorism”, transmitted the file to the Public Prosecutor’s Office National Anti-Terrorism (Pnat) for evaluation, he said on Saturday. Even if during the interrogation, the 70-year-old retiree tempered his remarks: “It was not an attack, it was an attack. (…) There is no political side”.
The Pnat, requested by AFP, confirmed that it had “carried out an additional analysis to the evaluation carried out from the commission of the facts”. “In this case, it does not follow either from the declarations of the person concerned or from any other element of the procedure that his act was conceived and perpetrated within the framework of an individual or collective enterprise intended to seriously disturb the public. public order through intimidation or terror, even if it has in fact caused such a disturbance”, estimated the Pnat. “His very disturbed personality which led the experts to conclude that his discernment was impaired, his fantasies of murder, his general hatred of foreigners, his desire for revenge and posthumous celebrity register his act in an exclusively personal approach”, according to the Pnat .
The Paris prosecutor’s office indicated that it had in fact “sent on April 13 to the three investigating judges co-seized an opinion unfavorable to a requalification of the facts”. William Malet therefore remains indicted for murders and attempted murders of a racist nature.