“Panic in Marseille: she gets out of her car and begins to pray in the middle of the road,” translated from “Panique à Marseille: Elle descend de sa Voiture et se met à prier en Plein milieu de la route,” Nice-Matin, December 23, 2021 (thanks to Medforth):
- The scene sparked a wave of panic in the district of Gineste, in Marseille, this Wednesday, December 22.
- The reason: the disturbing behavior of a 35-year-old motorist, reports La Provence.
- While traveling in a Nissan, the latter suddenly stopped her car in the middle of the road, got out, and began to pray on the road, according to a police source cited by our colleagues.
- When other road users asked her to stop, the young woman then “got back into her vehicle and made dangerous maneuvers and swerves. Witnesses described her with a Koran in her hand, and she allegedly shouted Allahu Akbar on the arrival of the police,” according to the same source.
- She was easily apprehended, and nothing dangerous was found on her or in her vehicle.
- Quoted by La Provence, the Marseille prosecutor’s office, which requested a psychiatric examination, specifies that the young woman “did not cause any damage, did not hit a car (…) and no one was injured.” She was not known to the anti-terrorism services, which moreover were not brought into the case Wednesday evening.
- The lead of a mentally disturbed person is probably favored, concludes Provence.
