The interested party “has suffered from mental disorders for a few months” according to the prosecution. The psychiatric expertise carried out Thursday confirmed “the severity of the disorders and concludes that the discernment is abolition”.
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The man arrested with a knife on the route of the Tour de France in Rouen on Tuesday was interned in psychiatry at the end of his police custody, announced the prosecution of the Norman city on Thursday, July 10. The respondent has “Contested the facts” despite “The set of concordant testimonies collected and videos opposed to it”exhibited the deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Rouen, Pierre Gérard.
The interested party “has been suffering from mental disorders for a few months” specifies the prosecution, the psychiatric expertise carried out Thursday having confirmed “The severity of the disorders and concludes that the discernment is abolition”. The prefect of Seine-Maritime Jean-Benoît Albertini therefore has “made an order admission to psychiatric care with transfer to unit for difficult patients”according to the same source.
Tuesday, around 3.30 p.m., when the fourth stage of the Tour de France arrived, this man carrying a table knife had threatened several spectators, according to the prosecution. The police of the Republican Security Company (CRS) had continued him and when mastering him, one of them had received a stab at the level of the torso without being injured, the Rouen prosecutor Sébastien Gallois said on Tuesday. An investigation “For attempted homicide on police officers” had been opened.
