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Marseille knife attacker ‘not radicalized’: French prosecutors
MARSEILLE: French prosecutors on Wednesday said that a man who wounded five people before being shot dead by police in the southern port of Marseille was “not radicalized” but suffering from “psychiatric disorders.” Abdelkader Dibi, a 35-year-old Tunisian, stabbed several people on Tuesday at a hotel that had evicted him for non-payment, then attacked several others on a busy
On Tuesday, a man wounded 5 people with a knife and an iron bar in Marseille. A Tunisian in a regular situation, Abdelkader Dhibi was known to the police and the judiciary. The prosecutor returned this Wednesday on the path of this man who was not radicalised. - "Not radicalised", "psychiatric disorders": what do we know about the attacker who injured 5 people in Marseilles? (Police, justice and other facts).
The 35-year-old assailant had injured five people on Tuesday before being shot by the police. By May 2025, he had been sentenced to four prison sentences but was not serving his sentence because he had appealed.
The national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office "does not wish to retain its jurisdiction" at the present time on this case, even though the man shouted "Allah akbar" several times during his "criminal journey" before being shot by police officers, announced Wednesday, the prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille.
The Marseille prosecutor said this Wednesday that the man who carried out the stabbing attack yesterday in Marseilles "was not radicalised but suffered from psychiatric disorders".
The five victims, three with knives and two with iron bars or fists, are all a priori out of danger, including the most seriously injured, the former "colocate" of the assailant in a hotel from which he had just been expelled for lack of payment.
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