Access to the dead end where the home of a young demented woman is located was blocked Monday evening by police vehicles. – E.Provenzano / 20 Minutes
- Monday evening, help was called to an apartment in the Saint Genès district in Bordeaux while a young woman suffering from psychiatric disorders was in crisis.
- She stabbed one of the police officers present, her colleague replied by firing a bullet. She is seriously injured in the head.
- She shouted “Allah Ouakbar” and “disbelievers” during the intervention, the anti-terrorism prosecution was notified.
Monday evening, a 33-year-old young woman, Elodie D, was shot and wounded during an emergency response to her home, located in the Saint Genès district in Bordeaux. The Samu and the firefighters were called by the young woman’s spouse who explained that she was in crisis, suffering from psychiatric disorders. When help arrived, accompanied by police, she was holed up at her home, armed with knives.
She stabbed a policeman
The police knocked on the door of the apartment on the ground floor of a dead end, asking it to open. In response, she began to shout “disbelievers” several times and knocked on the door. Shortly after, the police found that the lock on the front door was open and the door was slightly ajar. “Seeing water flowing on the floor in great quantity and fearing that the woman is committing suicide by drowning in the bathroom”, two of them enter the apartment, reports the parquet of Bordeaux.
The first policeman to come forward notices that the studio in front of him and to his left is unoccupied. That’s when the woman emerged from the bathroom, located to her right. Armed with knives, she shouted “Allah Ouakbar”. He then made use of his flash ball. The shot knocked the woman to her knees but as she stood up she stabbed her in the leg. The second policeman heard his colleague shout: “She touched me! And used his service weapon.
The young woman, hit in the head, collapsed to the ground. The Samu practiced first aid and transported the victim to the Bordeaux University Hospital. At this hour, his vital prognosis is still engaged. “His parents have been notified and must go to his bedside,” said the prosecution.
The wise counterterrorism prosecution
The prosecutor came to the scene Monday evening and saw in the studio “the presence of many books and religious documentation relating to Salafism, a priori rigorous official literature. “Given these elements and the comments made, contact was made with the national anti-terrorism prosecution which, at this stage of the investigations, did not take up the facts, specifies the Bordeaux prosecution.
The regional direction of the judicial police (DZPJ) was seized of the facts of aggravated violence with weapon and on person depositary of the public authority (PDAP) and the general inspectorate of the national police (IGPN) on the aspect “use of tear “.