The 52-year-old woman was voluntarily pushed by the suspect, arrested a few hours later in Vitry-sur-Seine.
This Friday, at 9:30 a.m., a 52-year-old woman was “thrown onto the tracks” of the Cité-Universitaire station, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. If she was able to get up, she was not able to avoid a train which hit her fatally.
The woman of Algerian nationality would have been pushed “without apparent reason”. The suspect, who had already committed similar acts, was arrested a few hours later and placed in police custody.
An attack “for no apparent reason”
This Friday, July 14, a 52-year-old woman of Algerian nationality was pushed onto the tracks of the Cité-Universitaire station of the RER B in Paris. Dressed in a hijab, she was pushed “for no apparent reason” by an individual who fled by tram before the arrival of the police and help.
The victim was able to get up, but not avoid the arrival of a train which hit him fatally.
Traffic was very disrupted all day before being restored to the entire line around 6:30 p.m.
The man arrested and identified
A little later in the day, around 3:40 p.m., the suspect was arrested for shoplifting in a supermarket in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) by a patrol from the anti-crime brigade.
According to the CCTV images of the RER station, the person arrested would correspond to the suspect arrested. According The Parisianthe man in his forties answers to the name of Mamadou B. and would be of Guinean nationality.
The suspect known for similar facts
In October 2011, he was taken into police custody for pushing a 25-year-old man onto the tracks at Strasbourg-Saint-Denis station.
Fortunately, the young man had fallen into an anti-suicide pit and the train driver had been able to activate the emergency brake in time.
Already at that time, no motive could be established. According to a police source, “[le jeune homme] did not see his attacker coming. He didn’t say a single word. He just walked over to him, grabbed him tightly, and threw him onto the rails.”
Disturbing statements
After his arrest, the man assured the police that he was “God” and had to “kill people” by targeting “weak people”. He also confessed to the charges against him.
always according to the Parisianthe man would have confessed to having hidden a bag of knives near the Vitry-sur-Seine tramway with the aim of killing children or the elderly.
Disturbing statements that have earned Mamadou B. to be entrusted to the Psychiatric Infirmary of the Prefecture of Police. Service which allows to welcome people “supported by the police services, whose mental disorders can present a danger for themselves or for others, with a view to their orientation.”
An investigation was opened for assassination and entrusted to the third district of the Parisian judicial police, specifies the parquet floor.