Attack of Villeurbanne. The suspect had the status of "subsidiary protection" since 2018

The French Office for Immigration and Integration granted asylum to the author of the knife attack Saturday in Villeurbanne. Contacted by AFP, the administration granted him this status last year.

The suspect of Saturday's knife attack in Villeurbanne is a 33-year-old Afghan who was granted asylum in France in 2018 under the specific statute of the "Subsidiary protection", learned Monday, September 2, AFP from the French Office of Immigration and Integration (OFII).

The man, who has partially acknowledged the facts after the attack that killed a 19-year-old man, was known by several identities and three dates of birth, the prosecutor of the Republic said this weekend. from Lyon, Nicolas Jacquet.

The status of "subsidiary protection"

Arrived in France in 2016 " without a family "he obtained in May 2018 the "Subsidiary protection" Ofpra (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons) "By posing as being born in 1986", which corresponds to one of the ages (33 years) under which he was known authorities, said Didier Leschi, director of the OFII.

Subsidiary protection is granted, according to Ofpra, "Any person whose situation does not meet the definition of refugee status but for whom there are serious and proven grounds for believing that he or she would run a real risk of suffering in his country" serious harm, such as the death penalty, torture, or "Serious and individual threat to his life" due "A situation of armed conflict".

A residence permit until 2020

He possessed, like any person placed under this status, a temporary residence permit for one year renewable. Its card was due to expire in 2020, suggesting that it has already been renewed at least once since its acquisition in 2018.

Since 2018, he was still housed in a center for asylum seekers even if his status no longer allowed, continued Dioier Leschi.

"Because of the personality of the mis en cause and in the absence of elements allowing to link directly its passage to the act with a terrorist enterprise", the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) was not seized at this stage, for this attack which also made eight wounded.

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