Syrian ‘knife attacker’ dubbed suicide threat as moved to psychiatric hospital
A Syrian refugee who allegedly stabbed two adults and 4 youngsters in a French park has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Abdalmasih H., 32, was charged with tried homicide and held in a suicide watch cell after allegedly attacking the victims on the shores of Lake Annecy, near France’s border with Switzerland. The French authorities presently haven’t any clarification for the assault.
Local media report that witnesses heard him “mention his wife and daughter and pronounce the name Jesus Christ” in the course of the assault. He additionally repeated the instruction “kill me” firstly of his custody.
Syrian authorities advised the French authorities that Abdalmaisih left Syria illegally in December 2012 to go to Turkey.
Abdalmaisih’s companion in Sweden claims he was traumatised by his previous experiences as a soldier in Syria and have become paranoid.
Providing testimony to the French court docket, she mentioned: “During his compulsory military service in the town of Al-Hasaka, in north-eastern Syria, Daesh (ISIS) attacked and killed his group before his very eyes.”
She added: “He thought that the Swedish government was plotting against him, that they were watching him.
“I believe it got here from his army service in Syria, the place he spent months shifting from one city to a different to flee dying… I believe the individual I knew now not exists.”
The suspect has now been moved from Aiton prison in Savoie to Vinatier psychiatric hospital in Bron, sources close to the case confirmed yesterday.
His partner claims the suspect was smuggled into Sweden after going across the sea and then through Greece. In Sweden he obtained refugee status and gave birth to a girl in 2020, she said.
She mentioned he made a number of makes an attempt to acquire Swedish citizenship since 2017, however failed every time due to his hyperlinks to President Assad’s military in Syria.
After being denied citizenship, the suspect moved to Italy in May 2022 after which to Switzerland in October.
He additionally utilized for asylum in Grenoble, France in November however had his utility rejected on 5 June – three days earlier than the alleged assault, his companion mentioned.