Dressed in fatigues, like a soldier. And armed as such. Screaming Allah Akbar. A 32-year-old man emerged from the thickets where he was hidden, near a reception room in Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis), this Sunday around 7 a.m. while guests were just leaving the evening. One of the revelers had the reflex to protect his “friends” by hitting him in the car to neutralize him. His acolytes immediately jumped on the individual to disarm him and hit him.
The rifle was stocked with ammunition
The latter, drunk and stunned by the collision with the car, but not injured, offered no resistance. He had on him “a saber and a semi-automatic rifle”, we confirm at the Bobigny prosecutor’s office.
The rifle was stocked with ammunition. During the search in Villemomble, at the home of the respondent, two other guns were found. He was taken into custody for willful violence with a weapon, threats with a weapon, detention, carrying and transporting a weapon. But the case was not transmitted to the anti-terrorist prosecution. “He certainly shouted Allah akbar, but has no disturbing judicial record and nothing else has been found for the moment that could suggest radicalization”, we resume at the Bobigny prosecutor’s office.
At the time of his arrest by the police, the attacker had a blood alcohol level close to 1 g per liter of exhaled air. The case was turned over to the judicial police.
“We thought we were going to die”
“We remain on a common law case because we are faced with someone disturbed against a background of very strong alcoholism,” confirms a source close to the investigation. But it was nonetheless dangerous. Because a cartridge was chambered in his semi-automatic rifle. “
This man had already come forward twice during the evening. When a first group of guests left the reception hall of the Ibis hotel during the night, he threatened one of them with a saber. Before relapsing around 6 a.m., when another party animal had also decided to go home.
Now investigators are working with intelligence services to try to identify the individual a little better. A psychiatric examination is also scheduled in the next few hours.
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VIDEO. Blanc Mesnil: armed with a saber and a rifle, he is arrested by revelers
Among the witnesses to the scene, fear still predominated during the hearings. “We thought we were going to die, if we hadn’t intervened ourselves, we don’t know what could have happened”, underlines one of them. The party security guard noticed the suspicious behavior of a man in camouflage during the night.
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