On June 26, during the night, a young man is spotted by passers-by in the middle of the roundabout by the theatre in the centre of Saumur praying while shouting “Allah Akbar”. (…)
When they try to chase him away, the policemen are attacked and one of them is punched in the face. His nose is broken and his teeth are knocked out (unable to work for 2 days). The man was taken into police custody and quickly had to be forcibly hospitalised due to his very aggressive behaviour in the cell. A psychiatric report was commissioned, which initially found no impairment of his capacity to judge. (…)
(…) The man of Senegalese origin and holding an Italian passport (he was in Saumur to work as a seasonal worker) was summoned to court to answer for his deeds. He was charged with these violent acts on Tuesday September 12 at the Saumur court, which considered his psychotic disorders to be real.
The prosecutor (…) asked for a sentence of 10 months in prison without parole and a ban on being in the department of Maine-et-Loire. The court finally sentenced him to 6 months imprisonment, 3 of which were suspended. He was kept in custody. Ouest France
