Aged “25-30” years old, the suspect was arrested near the same McDonald’s in which he allegedly dumped the liquid, Saturday November 16.
A man suspected of having poured tear gas into the McDonald's restaurant at Saint-Lazare station on Saturday in Paris, causing discomfort in around thirty people, was arrested on Tuesday and then taken to the psychiatric infirmary, according to a police source and the parquet.
At the start of the evening, requested by AFP, the Paris prosecutor's office indicated that his police custody had been lifted and that he had been taken to the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters (I3P). The man, aged «25-30 ans»was arrested around 11 a.m. in Saint-Lazare station, near the same McDonald's, said the police source.
He was equipped with tear gas spray and a Taser-type electric pulse gun, she added. He is suspected of having spilled a liquid on the floor of the fast-food restaurant on Saturday afternoon before leaving the premises. It was the contents of a tear gas canister. A total of 32 people had fallen ill, 10 of whom had been placed in relative emergency by emergency services.
An NRBC protocol to care for people potentially exposed to nuclear, radiological, biochemical or chemical risks had been put in place. But the station had not been evacuated. An investigation was opened to “weapon violence” and entrusted to the police station of the 8th arrondissement, indicated the Paris prosecutor's office.
