(AFP) An Afghan asylum-seeker who killed a man and stabbed several others in the French city of Lyon sparked a row about immigration on Sunday as new details emerged about his rampage.
Investigators said the killer appeared to have psychological problems and had smoked large quantities of cannabis before stabbing the 19-year-old man to death and injuring eight others on Saturday afternoon at a bus station in the Villeurbanne suburb.
He was found in public records with two identities and three different dates of birth, making him either 33, 31 or 27-years-old, prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet told a news conference in Lyon on Sunday.
During “confused” interviews with police, he said he was [a] Muslim “who had heard voices saying God had been insulted and instructing him to kill,” Jacquet said, adding that the case was being treated as a criminal, rather than terrorist, incident.
