A 60-year-old man was beheaded with a knife on Saturday evening in Saint-Priest, a commune of Lyon. According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, his 25-year-old son was arrested on the spot. According to the public prosecutor of Lyon, the young man would have beheaded his father with a kitchen knife.
The national police are said to have received a call from the local police during the night after a decapitated body was discovered in a parking lot. “The local police then reported that a man was walking around with a head in one hand and a knife in the other,” a source told the French newspaper.
The police officers were able to arrest the man. He would have tried to stab them first, but no one was injured. ActuLyon said the man yelled “Allahu Akbar” at the police. The man is known to the police for previous family quarrels and other violations, the French news agency AFP reports. The man would not be known for radicalism.
“A motive is now being sought and an investigation into the background of the perpetrator is underway,” said the Public Prosecution Service.