The man who cut himself with a knife and was injured by police officers’ gunfire on Friday, November 14, at Montparnasse station in Paris was charged and held pre-trial on Wednesday, prosecutors told Agence France-Presse.
The Public Prosecutor has opened an earlier judicial investigation, specifically into violence against a person in a position of public power, with the use of weapons, but which did not result in incapacity for work. The debate was held in the afternoon “in the hospital”considering the health condition of this 44 year old man, he was injured in the throat due to a stab wound he suffered, and his thigh was penetrated by a police bullet.
“The conclusion of the psychiatric examination revealed that the suspect exhibited antisocial personality traits, low frustration tolerance, these traits were exacerbated during the period of alcohol abuse”said the prosecutor.
A pedestrian was injured in one leg by police gunfire
On Friday, the forty-year-old arrived by train from Rennes to Paris station, where he was expected by police as part of a domestic violence investigation, after being sentenced in September. In his bag, it was found “kitchen knife, cutter, bottle of alcohol, and BB gun without ammo”.
Police officers using their weapons were transported first “in hospital because of shock”. Overheard in police custody, he described seeing him “the man was face to face with him” and have him “Told four times to drop his weapon”.
When he saw him start to mutilate himself, he asked again “stop twice before pulling his leg”. The statement is “corroborated by the use of a camera worn on his body”said the prosecutor. His police detention was lifted after the hearing and his weapons were confiscated. A pedestrian, in his fifties, was also injured in one of his legs by police gunfire.
