Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: Loïc Venance/AFP 6:50 p.m., January 8, 2024On December 11, this man was arrested after brandishing a knife in a street in the 17th arrondissement while shouting “Allah Akbar”. During the search of his home, several butcher knives and a baseball bat were found.
A man who threatened several passers-by with a knife in December on a street in the capital by asking them if they were Jewish was given a six-month suspended prison sentence on Monday in Paris. On December 11, this man was arrested after brandishing a knife in a street in the 17th arrondissement while shouting “Allah Akbar”. He had threatened two people before the arrival of the police by asking them if they were Jewish.
The accused, whose blood alcohol level at the time of the events was 1.58 grams per liter of blood, was found guilty of violence with use of a weapon without incapacity and of threatening to kill due to race, ethnicity, nation or religion, and sentenced to six months’ suspended sentence, accompanied by an obligation of care.
“I got lost in my head”
“I have no more memories (…), I don’t know why I did what I did,” explained the defendant, who also suffers from neurological disorders, on the stand. “I had a bout of blues and I got lost in my head, I ask for forgiveness,” he added, specifying that the period of events corresponded to the first anniversary of the death of his mother.
During the search of his home, several butcher knives and a baseball bat were found, as well as Muslim religious objects and a sweatshirt in the colors of the Palestinian flag, gifts from relatives according to the defendant. He denied any support for the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
2024-01-08 18:05:44
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