The suspect in the stabbing of three women in the Paris metro has been released from custody and moved to a psychiatric hospital, prosecutors said on Saturday.
The man was arrested suspected of stabbing three women in the Paris Metro on Friday as the capital’s end-of-year festivities were in full swing.
The three victims were attacked at three different locations along the Line 3 metro track that runs across central Paris. They were injured but not critically.
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Continued police custody was not appropriate for the suspect because it is “considered incompatible with the state of his health”, the prosecutors’ office said.
Police had used surveillance-camera footage and mobile-tracking tools to locate the 25-year-old suspect in the Val d’Oise region north of Paris.
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Transport police had opened an investigation into attempted murder and assault with a weapon.