Assassination attempt in La Défense

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The attack in La Défense took place on May 25, 2013 in a neighborhood west of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine department .

Course of the act

On May 25, 2013, the 25-year-old soldier Cédric Cordier was uniformed with two other soldiers of the French army as part of the Plan Vigipirate on patrol in the La Défense business district west of Paris . At 5:54 p.m., he was attacked from behind with a knife and severely injured in the neck by two stabs. The attacker, who kneeled in a corner and prayed before the crime , was initially able to flee.

Cordier was taken to the Percy Military Hospital in Clamart with severe blood loss and was discharged two days later.

After the fact

Four days after the crime, on the morning of May 29, the then 21-year-old Alexandre Dhaussy was arrested by the police as a suspect in La Verrière . He was identified by his genetic fingerprint from DNA traces on a plastic bag found at the crime scene . When questioned by the police, he confessed to the crime and testified to having acted on behalf of Allah . Dhaussy grew up in Le Perray-en-Yvelines in a Catholic family with roots in Réunion . At the age of 17, 7 years before the act, he converted to Islam .

On November 5, 2015, he was - the - at the request of his lawyer Cour d'appel de Paris in the Palais de Justice for blame incapable found. He suffers from severe depression , is distant from reality, shows a paranoid attitude and has a psychotic personality structure. There will therefore no longer be any litigation in the matter.

Parallels to the Lee Rigby murder case

Just three days before the incident in La Défense, the British soldier Lee Rigby was murdered by two men in the London borough of Woolwich . Both were British citizens and, like Dhaussy, had previously converted to Islam. The attempted murder of Cordier was interpreted as an act of imitation of the murder in London.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ce que l'on sait sur l'attaque du militaire à la Defense. In: L'Express . May 27, 2013, accessed February 9, 2017 (French).
  2. ↑ Another attack on a soldier. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 25, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Emilie Blachere, Grégory Peytavin: Alexandre, 22 ans, français, djihadiste. In: Paris Match . June 7, 2013, accessed February 9, 2017 (French).
  4. ↑ Angelique Chrisafis: French police hunt man who stabbed soldier in Paris. In: The Guardian . May 26, 2013, accessed February 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b Militaire poignardé à La Défense: l'agresseur déclaré pénalement irresponsable. In: L'Express. November 5, 2015, accessed February 9, 2017 (French).
  6. ↑ Raffaello Pantucci: A Death in Woolwich . In: RUSI Journal . tape 159 , no. 5 , November 4, 2014, ISSN  0035-9289 , p. 26 , doi : 10.1080 / 03071847.2014.969941 .