He was arrested near the scene of the offense. A man suspected of having poured tear gas into the McDonald's restaurant at Saint-Lazare station on Saturday November 16, 2024 in Paris, was arrested this Tuesday, November 19 and then taken to the psychiatric infirmary, according to a police source and the public prosecutor's office. Paris. At the beginning of the evening, requested by theAFPthe prosecution 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.
Around thirty people were taken ill
He is suspected of having spilled a liquid on the floor of the fast-food restaurant on Saturday 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 had been opened for “violence with weapons” and entrusted to the VIII police statione district, the prosecution indicated. As part of this case, a man was checked at the Caen station (Calvados) the same day, but he left free because he “wasn’t the right person” according to the Normandy police services.
