Suspected attacker of three women with a knife in the Paris metro arrested

The French police have arrested the man who injured three women with a knife on a Paris metro line 3 train on Friday, authorities reported. After fleeing, the Police launched an operation to capture the suspect, who was finally arrested at his home in Sarcelles, north of the French capital. In a statement sent to EFE, the Paris Prosecutor's Office explained that the man was identified "thanks to video surveillance images" and the subsequent "activation of the geolocation of his mobile phone".

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The Prosecution also detailed that the services of the regional transport security (SRT) are in charge of the investigation "for the crimes of attempted voluntary homicide and voluntary violence with a weapon". According to the newspaper 'Le Figaro', the three women were slightly injured, although they suffered a strong emotional "shock". The motivations behind this attack are unknown, although, for the moment, the terrorist track is not the main one (the Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office has not been activated) and investigators seem to lean towards the possibility that the aggressor suffered from a "psychiatric disorder", according to the 'BFMTV' channel.