France: 30 months imprisonment for Nazim Uddin Mohamad, who attacked a caretaker of the home where he was housed with a knife while shouting “Allah Akbar”

On December 9, a Bangladeshi man staying at the youth hostel (formerly FJT) in Bruay-La-Buissière attacked a caretaker with a knife. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison, but did not say anything to explain what he had done.

It was a gaunt young man who sat in the dock, he had been in pre-trial detention for a month and a half. A 19-year-old man from Bangladesh, he seemed distracted during his trial and did not answer the judges, his lawyer or the interpreter. Yet the offences he is accused of are serious: stabbings, after which the question of intent to kill (and thus a verdict in the jury court) arose…

It was the morning of December 9. The resident, who was staying at the residence for young people in Bruay (formerly FJT) in the Rue d’Argentine, asked to speak to someone in charge, but the accused very quickly pulled out a 25-30 cm ceramic knife that he had hidden in his jumper and lunged at him. He stabbed him in the face and then in the upper part of the body. Dubout, the victim’s lawyer, explains: “Vital organs are at stake. My client saw himself die when he aimed for the heart!”

(…) The Bangladeshi man, who was arrested near the dormitory, allegedly made incoherent statements: “Allah akbar” and “I love mum”, and even spoke to her, even though she was dead….

La Voix du Nord / https://www.fdesouche.com/2023/02/08/bruay-la-buissiere-62-30-mois-de-prison-pour-nazim-uddin-mohamad-qui-avait-attaque-au-couteau-un-responsable-du-foyer-qui-lhebergeait-en-criant-allah-akbar/