The 24-year-old man on file S arrested in possession of a knife in Yvelines on Friday is released this Sunday and will be tried in immediate appearance at the Versailles criminal court on Monday, the Versailles prosecutor’s office told AFP, confirming information from Actu.fr.
A psychiatric assessment of the defendant concluded on Saturday that there was no disorder and therefore that he was eligible for a criminal sanction, the public prosecutor had previously declared. Many religious books related to Islam were discovered at his home during a search.
An S file
Police sources told AFP on Friday that the individual was known for “radicalization”. One of them specified on Saturday that the man was the subject of an S file. The young man had been arrested around 3 p.m. Friday at the exit of a mosque and near the Condorcet high school, in Limay , according to police and judicial sources.
Earlier Friday, a young Russian accused of radicalization stabbed a teacher to death and seriously injured two people in a middle school in Arras, in the north of France. While traveling in this establishment, President Emmanuel Macron spoke of another foiled “attack attempt”, “in another region”. He was referring, according to the Interior Ministry, to the arrest of Limay.
A knife with a nine-centimeter blade on it
But the prosecution had clarified to AFP that the case had not been the subject of a “disposal (…) for the benefit of the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat)”. 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.
The man had previously been convicted of “driving under drugs” and “carrying a category D weapon”.