Navigation
Join our brand new verified AMN Telegram channel and get important news uncensored!
  •  

French prosecutor says knife-wielding Afghan suspect in ‘psychotic state’ during fatal stabbing spree

Subway in France (Grey World/Flickr)
September 02, 2019

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission.

An Afghan asylum-seeker who fatally stabbed one person and wounded eight others in France was under the influence of drugs and experiencing “paranoid delirium,” a regional prosecutor said on September 1 as reported by the AP news agency.

He was in a “psychotic state” during the stabbing and reported hearing “voices” telling him to kill, prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet said.

The suspect started attacking people with a knife on August 31 outside a subway station in the Lyon suburb of Villeurbanne.

A group of passers-by apprehended him before the police arrived.

The 33-year-old suspect’s identity wasn’t made available to the public and isn’t listed on any radicalism watch list. A police search of his residence found two knives and no radical literature.

He has been living at a French center for asylum-seekers and was in possession of a temporary French residency card.

French cities are on high alert following several deadly attacks blamed on Islamic extremists in 2015 and 2016.