A street blocked off after the knife attack in La Chapelle sur Erdre, May 28, 2021 – J. Urbach / 20 Minutes
The Nantes public prosecutor’s office remains seized of the investigation into the police officer attacked with a knife in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre. All of the “investigative elements were communicated to the Paris anti-terrorist public prosecutor. It was agreed, after a new analysis, that in the state of the investigations, the Nantes prosecutor’s office remained seized of this case, ”said the Nantes public prosecutor, Pierre Sennès, in a press release. “This situation may be re-examined in the coming days depending on the new elements that the investigation may reveal, if necessary,” he added.
Summarizing the latest investigations, the prosecutor indicates that the research section of the Nantes gendarmerie has collected since Friday “more than fifty depositions”, in particular those of people in the premises of the municipal police of Chapelle-sur-Erdre in time of the events, including “the two officers who were victims of an attempted murder”.
At no time did “the assailant make a statement of a terrorist-type claim”
“The investigators took the statement of the young woman who, on May 28 between 10:40 am and 1:00 pm, was kidnapped by the assailant in his home,” he adds, without further clarification. According to a source close to the file, the kidnapped woman affirmed that at no time “the assailant did not mention a terrorist-type claim”.
The hearings of the gendarmes, witnesses and the use of videos, “allowed the accused to be charged with three series of shots fired at the soldiers (…) with two last shots leading to the response of the forces of order causing his death, ”said the prosecution.
The autopsy carried out this Saturday established that Ndiaga Dieye, 39, had died following a “gunshot wound in the abdomen”. “Many depositions are currently collected in the professional and family environment of the aggressor in order to identify his personality”, specifies the magistrate. A computer tablet and a mobile phone were seized from Ndiaga Dieye’s home. Their “data are being exploited” and “the results will be known early next week”, adds the prosecutor.