According to the first testimonies, the individual with suspicious behavior wandered for more than an hour in the streets of Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine) when he was arrested by the police officers who were looking for him. The 40-year-old man of French nationality was arrested this Saturday, around 10:30 am, near the mosque, rue Albert-Petit, in possession of a buckle leaf which he was consumed ostensibly in his hand.
Arrested without difficulty, the individual was immediately taken to the Antoine-Béclère hospital in Clamart, for psychiatric expertise and to find out if his state of health was compatible with police custody. On the video images of his arrest, we can see the imposing knife on the ground, while the man is standing, opposing any resistance to the two agents of the national police.
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“According to the first elements of context which were communicated to me, this arrest is unrelated to a possible passage to the Islamophobic act, after the assassination of the Grande-Combe”, specifies this Saturday afternoon the mayor (PCF) of Bagneux Marie-Hélène amicable, is thus reassuring while the murder of the young Malian Aboubakar Cisséin a Gard mosque on April 25, arouses strong concerns within the Muslim community in France.
“The municipal police are already very attentive to the surroundings of the mosque and will obviously continue to be,” adds the councilor, warned by the prefect of Hauts-de-Seine Alexandre Brugère. The latter went to Colombes last Tuesday, to meet the representatives of the Mohammed V mosque, in order to detail the system put in place in the department, “in accordance with the orientations of the Minister of the Interior”, for the protection of places of worship with 130 police officers mobilized.
