Seine-Saint-Denis. Man attacks party attendees with saber and rifle

A 32-year-old man attacked with a saber and a semi-automatic rifle Sunday, July 19, 2020 the guests of a private party organized at Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis) as they left the reception hall of an Ibis hotel around 7 a.m., reports The Parisian Monday. One of the participants who was in his car had the reflex to hit him with his vehicle, which allowed his friends to neutralize the assailant.

The man was drunk and had a blood alcohol level close to 1g per liter of exhaled air, or nearly 2g per liter of blood, at the time of his arrest by the police. His rifle was stocked with ammunition.

An individual deemed disturbed by the police

The police searched his home and found that there were two other guns there. He was taken into custody for willful violence with a weapon, threats with a weapon, detention, carrying and transporting a weapon.

Although the individual cried Allah akbar at the material time, the case was not transmitted to the anti-terrorism prosecution. He has no worrying criminal record and nothing else has been found to suggest radicalization., explained the Bobigny prosecutor’s office to Parisian. We are faced with someone disturbed against a background of very strong alcoholism, estimated a source close to the investigation.