The man armed with five knives who was arrested Wednesday after sowing panic in his old company, in Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle and assaulting two employees, was imprisoned this Friday, indicates the Orléans prosecutor’s office.
Investigation for attempted assassination
A judicial investigation is opened for attempted assassinationviolence with a weapon resulting in temporary incapacity for work less than or equal to eight days, violence with a weapon without total incapacity for work and damage to private property.
Armed with several knives (five according to our information), he entered Germond, a steel company, in Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle and “committed stabbing attacks there to the detriment of three employees”. It also caused damage within the company.
Two victims injured with a knife
“The first victim was stabbed several times in the face. The second was injured in the fingers of both hands, arm and temple, while rescuing his colleague. A third victim, intervening to put an end to various degradations, was threatened by a knife without receiving a blow “, continues Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren, prosecutor of the Republic of Orleans, in a press release.
The man, who is 36 years old according to our information, is well a former employee of the company, “dismissed since 2019”, according to the prosecution. Presented to the investigating judge on Friday, he was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the prosecution’s requisitions.
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