Travellers on the 7.02 a.m. train from Le Havre to Paris had a big scare on Monday morning. As their regional train (TER) arrived in the Paris suburbs, one of the passengers from Seine-Saint-Denis shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ several times into the train, asserted that he had placed explosives on the train and threatened to detonate them. Some passengers, frightened by the man’s behaviour, ran to the front of the train. The person, who suffers from a mental disorder, was to be committed to a psychiatric hospital.
At 9.20 a.m., police officers incapacitated the 56-year-old man at Achères – Grand Cormier station with a weapon. The man was taken into police custody for ‘glorification of terrorism’. Following a psychiatric assessment, he was finally declared not criminally responsible. The 56-year-old, who had not previously attracted the attention of the police and suffers from psychiatric disorders, was apparently mentally unbalanced. He had to be compulsorily committed.
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