The violent attack on a 70-year-old woman and her 7-year-old granddaughter on Monday at the family home in Bordeaux sparked a wave of political outrage on Tuesday, but the victims’ families warn against any form of “recovery”.
The suspect’s questioning on trespassing, violence, attempted kidnapping and violent detention was dropped around 3pm on Tuesday because he presented “serious behavioral problems linked to a schizophrenic and psychotic pathology,” according to the Bordeaux prosecutor.
The 29-year-old man, who has been convicted 15 times of traffic or narcotics offenses, has told investigators he should be “under psychiatric monitoring and no longer treated,” Bordeaux prosecutor Frederique Porterie said in a press release on Tuesday morning.
He would need “medical care” from a psychiatric hospital, said prosecutors, who were taking applications to “allow his interrogation to resume as soon as his health permits.”
In a video posted to Twitter Monday night by former Bordeaux mayor Nicolas Florian, which he deleted Tuesday “so as not to get into unnecessary controversy,” a man bursts through the door of a building and then violently frees an elderly woman and child whom they violently threw to the ground on the sidewalk before leaving the premises.
[#VosSignalements] Last night, many of you told us about a video showing a woman being attacked in front of a child.
✅ Pharos investigators confiscated
❌ Person in police custody
🙏🏼 Do not share the video again
👍 Thank you for your reports. pic.twitter.com/nND2WzDmRQ— National Police (@NationalPolice) June 20, 2023
The victims’ family, in a press release sent by their lawyer Me Nadège Pain to AFP on Tuesday, condemned “the media’s use of the images without their express consent and without the slightest respect for the victims’ identities or their privacy.”
According to Ms Porterie, the 73-year-old lady said the man “attempted to kidnap the little girl” around 5.30pm in middle-class Chartrons and fled by car because of “the dog barking in the foyer”. .
The suspect was identified by a neighbor and “thanks to the presence of a videophone,” added the judge, who indicated that the two victims “suffered from bruises and abrasions.”
According to police, the attack happened when the grandmother was returning to her son’s home. The author was a homeless man who was neutralized with a stun gun, the same source said.
According to the indictment, he was born in Bordeaux in July 1993. According to the police, he is French and his name is Braihima B.
A regional police union Alliance official denounced “a +12% increase in violence and crime since the publication of COVID” in the city, where “all police services” are “overwhelmed” “despite reinforcements”.
“These facts of rare violence must be punished very severely so that they never happen again,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin responded on Twitter.
Despicable aggression in Bordeaux. Thanks to the quick and courageous action of the police, the suspect was arrested and taken into custody.
These rare acts of violence must be punished very severely so that they are never repeated.— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) June 20, 2023
His justice colleague Éric Dupond-Moretti denounced “absolutely unbearable” images on BFMTV, a term also used by former mayor Nicolas Florian, who called on Twitter to “not close our eyes to the reality of violence, in #Bordeaux like.” elsewhere”. .
On the far right, Marine Le Pen on Tuesday lamented “baseless, unpredictable, increasingly violent crime” and reiterated a “link between anarchic immigration and the explosion of insecurity.”
This aggression in Bordeaux is symbolic of the crime our fellow citizens are subjected to today, a crime that is unprovoked and increasingly violent. No city, no village, no district is spared from the development of this insecurity. pic.twitter.com/mqOI08wjM5
— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) June 20, 2023
Bordeaux’s green mayor, Pierre Hurmic, “extremely shocked by this aggression,” denounced “local and national, ideological recovery political responses” at a news conference on Tuesday.
The victims’ families also said in the press release sent by their lawyer that they were “outraged at the political hype this news is provoking.”
“It is totally indecent to use this message to invoke an ethnic origin or to justify penal or migration reforms. Justice must go to court calmly in its time and not on television or on social networks,” adds Me Nadège Pain.