A man was holed up on the evening of Friday May 3 at his home in L’Hôpital (Moselle), we learned from the prefecture and a police Source. The Raid, an elite unit of the national police, is on site, these same sources indicated. The man, whose motivations are unknown, “set his apartment on fire”, depending on the prefecture. The regional daily The Lorraine Republican evokes, he, “a big explosion” flying “in pieces” the shutters of the house. “A security perimeter was established, the gas was cut off and the Search and Intervention Brigade was dispatched to the scene”, according to the newspaper. The man previously injured someone with a knife but not seriously, the prefecture said.
He was still holed up around 11:30 p.m., according to this same Source, who could not specify how long the madman, who seems to be suffering from disorders “psychiatric”, had locked himself in his home. Man is “obviously in crisis”according to a police Source. “Apart from the initial injured person”there is no ‘no other people affected’we added.
According to The Lorraine Republicanthe man, who would be around forty years old, would be schizophrenic and would have been sentenced several times to prison terms. “In July 2020, (he) had disfigured with a chopper an 18-year-old young man who had refused him a cigarette”, writes the newspaper. he is also “known to the residents of the building for having repeatedly damaged property belonging to others”according to the local newspaper.
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