US EditionParis Metro Stabbing Suspect Is French: Ministry
The 25-year-old suspect was arrested after stabbing three women on Paris metro line 3 and was later admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the Interior Ministry confirmed.
- On Dec 29, the French Interior Ministry said the suspect, a 25-year-old man in the Paris metro stabbing, is French after earlier describing him as an undocumented Malian ordered to leave France.
- The suspect had been imprisoned in January 2024 for aggravated theft and sexual assault, and failure to obtain a consular travel document led to his release after 90 days in an administrative detention centre.
- Investigators say CCTV footage and mobile geolocation identified the suspect, who was arrested in Val-d'Oise, north of Paris, after the attack on Dec 26.
- The Paris public prosecutor’s office said his health was incompatible with police custody, and he was released on Saturday evening for psychiatric reasons before admission to a psychiatric hospital on Dec 27.
- Investigators uncovered a French passport the suspect held since 2018, the ministry said he never disclosed this nationality in past proceedings, while Interior Minister Laurent Nunez urged 'maximum vigilance' on public transport last week.
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The Minister of the Interior has today acknowledged a "fault" on the nationality of the respondent in the stabbing attack. Marianne reveals to you the reasons for this imbroglio.
ANALYSIS - The journey of the alleged 25-year-old assailant, who wounded three women with a knife in Paris on 26 December, is evidence of an almost widespread bankruptcy, at the time of mass immigration.
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Modern GhanaAuthorities say Malian suspect in Paris metro stabbing is also French citizen
The French Interior Ministry has acknowledged that a man suspected of stabbing three women in the Paris metro on Friday – and who was initially described as a Malian national ordered to leave France – in fact holds French citizenship.
Three women were assaulted on the metro in Paris on Friday 26 December. In the wake of the arrest by the police, the suspect was first presented as a Malian national who had been the subject of an obligation to leave the territory (OQTF). The Ministry of the Interior finally established that the person concerned had been naturalized in 2018 and had a French passport. - Women attacked with a knife in the Parisian metro: the suspect had obtained F…
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