“He didn’t seem to be in a normal state.”

This Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 7:45 p.m., an individual armed with a kitchen knife was arrested in the city center of Rouen (Seine-Maritime) after threatening numerous passers-by and attempting to rob a brasserie. Details.

The facts occurred, rue Armand-Carrel in Rouen, Saturday October 19, 2024, at 7:45 p.m. An individual carrying a knife approached and threatened passers-by and customers seated on the terrace before attacking the owner of a brasserie located on the same street.

According to a police source, the man, armed with a “large kitchen knife“, made remarks”threatening and incoherent“, causing concern among passers-by. He then tried to extort money from the owner of the Le Lido brasserie. Threatened with death, he contacted the 17th.

The suspect was stopped by the Anti-Crime Brigade as he was heading towards Saint Mark’s Square. “The police asked him to drop his weaponspecifies this same source. He didn’t seem to be in a normal state.“

The man, born in June 1984 and residing in Rouen, was arrested for “aggravated attempted extortion, threatening to commit a crime or misdemeanor against people” and “carrying and transporting a category D weapon”. He was taken into custody in the evening.

This same weekend, Sunday October 20 at 3:30 p.m., another armed extortion attempt occurred, this time in Dieppe. The victim, a man of Finnish nationality born in 1978, was threatened with a hunting rifle by two young people while he was withdrawing money from an ATM.

The latter then tried to take him aside, to an apartment.

At the police station, the victim recognized one of the two attackers via a photo board provided by the police. The latter, born in July 2007, was arrested at Arcades de la Bourse at 6:30 p.m.

Ten minutes later, his accomplice, born in February of the same year, was also arrested. The two young people were placed in police custody.