A 42-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in the town of Caluire et Cuire, bordering Lyon, where he was walking around dressed in a djellaba and carrying a sabre, causing concern among passers-by who alerted the police.
The Figaro Lyon
Panic broke out in the streets of Caluire and Cuire early Saturday afternoon. A man wearing a djellaba was reported to the police by passers-by as he was shouting “Allah Akbar” and carrying a katana, according to information from the site Lyon News confirmed at FigaroHe was quickly arrested by BAC agents dispatched to the scene, in this town bordering Lyon.
The suspect had gotten rid of his weapon, which was found nearby and immediately seized. No injuries were reported, unlike the knife attack committed in the spring in the Lyon metro.
“Significant psychiatric disorders”
The 42-year-old man, who threatened the police, was taken into custody. Known to the police, the accused “has significant psychiatric disorders,” a police source said FigaroThe forty-year-old was therefore placed in a care facility under constraint, following this diagnosis. The Lyon public prosecutor’s office has not yet responded to our requests.
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At the beginning of February, it was at the other end of Lyon, in the 8th arrondissement, that a man on the S list with a very serious psychiatric history brandished a 20-centimeter knife and threatened passers-by.
