French investigation into deadly assault close to Eiffel Tower seems into psychological sickness of suspect
PARIS — French police investigations right into a deadly weekend assault close to the Eiffel Tower are trying into the psychological well being of the suspected assailant who swore allegiance to the Islamic State group earlier than stabbing a German-Filipino vacationer to dying and injuring two different individuals with a hammer.
The French nationwide taken into police custody, Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, has a historical past of psychological sickness and of Islamic radicalization, officers stated. He faces a doable preliminary cost of terrorist-related homicide for the assault Saturday night time that raised contemporary questions on safety within the French capital earlier than it hosts the Olympic Games subsequent yr.
“This is a case that links radical Islam, undeniably, and mental illness. I must tell the French people the truth that there are numerous cases like this,” the inside minister, Gérald Darmanin, stated Monday, including that round one-third of suspected radicals below surveillance have psychiatric points.
Speaking to broadcaster BFMTV, the minister stated French officers must be given higher powers to pressure individuals in such circumstances to hunt psychiatric remedy.
“There appears to have been a psychiatric failing because doctors on multiple occasions decided that he was better, that he was more normal and could live freely,” he stated.
A couple of weeks earlier than the assault, the suspect’s mom had advised police that her son had stopped taking his medicines, however she was apparently too terrified of him to ask that he be hospitalized, the minister stated.
“She didn’t want to, apparently because she was scared of her child, which is understandable,” he stated. “She came back a few days later to say that he seemed better.”
