The man had threatened several people in the days before his arrest. In police custody, he continued to attack police officers, the judiciary and France as a whole. A 31-year-old man was arrested with a stabbing weapon in Châlons-en-Champagne on Thursday March 31, police sources told Valeurs actuelles. He had subsequently threatened from his cell with the words “You are dead, you policemen, I am killing France, Allah is destroying France”. He was identified as Mohamed J. and was not mentally in good state of mind, the source said.
The man had first been reported to the police eleven days earlier by a shop owner who had reported him for making death threats. On March 31, the man had threatened and insulted a bus conductor when the latter approached him about not wearing a mask. Mohamed J. was then seen by the shopkeeper in question with a knife in his hand. He did not resist when arrested, but in police custody he appeared threatening. “Allah is destroying France, destroying Israel, destroying the French, the lawyers in France, all the prosecutors in France – Allah is destroying Macron,” he said. “The French have done damage in Algeria and Morocco. You are already dead men, you are a defeated people. I declare war on you, you are dead,” he said.
The person is listed in the Traitement d’antécédent judiciaires (Tag) file, which contains information about people who have been charged with a crime but not necessarily convicted, as well as their victims. The manwas, on the other hand, not known to the secret service.