He was arrested leaving a mosque. A psychiatric assessment of the 24-year-old man on file S arrested on Friday in Yvelines concluded that there was no disorder, and therefore that he was eligible for a criminal sanction, indicates a police source.
Police sources indicated on Friday that the individual was known for “radicalization”. One of them clarified on Saturday that the man was the subject of an S file.
Custody still in progress
His police custody continued early Saturday afternoon, the Versailles prosecutor’s office said. He had been placed there for carrying a prohibited weapon in Limay (Yvelines) on Friday around 3 p.m. outside a mosque and near the Condorcet high school, according to police and judicial sources.
The Versailles public prosecutor’s office confirmed the man’s arrest and indicated that “police custody (was) in progress, managed by the Mantes-la-Jolie police station for carrying a category D weapon” in the context of of an open investigation on this count.
Numerous religious books discovered at his home
The weapon held by the arrested man is “a priori a kitchen knife”, added the public prosecutor. Checked as part of an identity check, he was “carrying a knife with a nine-centimeter blade which he did not brandish or exhibit”, and “was not threatening”, noted the prosecution . “He declared that he was homeless and always had (this knife) on him to defend himself in the event of an attack,” according to this source.
Many religious books linked to Islam were discovered at his home during a search, this source added. The man had previously been convicted of “driving under drugs” and “carrying a category D weapon”.