According to our information, an employee of the Paris Prefecture of Police was arrested on Saturday March 2 for glorifying terrorism on the corner of Place de la Concorde and Rue Boissy d’Anglas in the eighth arrondissement of Paris.
At around 4.10pm that day, he accosted a passer-by by talking about terrorism and saying that he was “going to cause a bloodbath”, a police source told Valeurs actuelles. He was taken into police custody and has since undergone a psychiatric examination and been sent to the psychiatric hospital of the Paris police prefecture (IPPP).
The accused is called Tanguy Le N., is 28 years old, a French citizen, was born in Sèvres in the Hauts-de-Seine department and lives in Saint-Denis in the Seine-Saint-Denis department.
“Police custody may be resumed at the end of the accused’s observation period in the psychiatric infirmary if he is not hospitalised. No decision has therefore yet been taken on the judicial follow-up,” said the Paris public prosecutor’s office, which was contacted by Valeurs actuelles.
More information to follow…
UPDATE
The accused is Tanguy Le N., 28 years old, a French citizen, born in Sèvres in the Hauts-de-Seine department and living in Saint-Denis in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. He works as a contract employee as part of the organisation of the 2024 Olympic Games, according to a police source.
“The accused, a contract agent and media designer at the Prefecture of Police, was arrested on Saturday March 2 after making some disturbing statements (the majority of which appeared rather delusional),” confirmed the Paris prosecutor’s office, contacted by Valeurs actuelles.
“In view of his state of health, the person concerned was immediately taken to the psychiatric hospital and was therefore not taken into police custody. He will therefore be heard at the end of the observation period in the psychiatric infirmary if he is not hospitalised,” the public prosecutor’s office added.
The investigation, which has been entrusted to the commissariat of the 8th arrondissement, is continuing, so it is not yet known what legal action will follow.