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Join on Telegram Casablanca – A 26-year-old Moroccan student who was shot on Thursday night by a police officer in the French department of Blois died on Saturday evening at the municipal hospital, the Prosecutor of the Republic in Blois confirmed in a statement yesterday.
Reports indicate that the young man looked mentally unstable and was shot as he threatened to stab the police officer who had been dispatched to arrest him.
The man was seen walking around barefoot at 10 p.m. on Thursday, with a knife in his hand and wearing only a blood-stained t-shirt and boxer shorts. He looked to have suicidal inclinations, according to a witness who knew him and reported him to the police, reported La Nouvelle Republique.
The young student, whose roommates have described him as being very calm and very socially integrated, had come to France in September to study. He had just completed a month-long internship in a firm when he was shot this week.
The young Moroccan student is said to have anxieties of unknown causes for a few days. He appeared entirely bewildered, lost, made incomprehensible statements, and was very irritated, his roommates explained to the investigators.
After being shot in the chest, the young Moroccan student’s condition had deteriorated to the point that, on Saturday morning, the public prosecutor, Frederic Chevallier, stated that he was in a “state of brain death.”
Chevallier noted there would be a follow-up declaration to shed more light on the young man’s death.
“In order to identify the exact causes of his death, the prosecutor’s office of Blois, which is in charge of this inquiry initiated for attempted murder on police officers of the Blois police station, has chosen to conduct an autopsy,” he explained. “It will be carried out on Tuesday afternoon, April 26, at the forensic institute of Tours.”
