An investigation for attempted murder is now open after the attack on Monday, November 21, which took place in Saint-Orens, near Toulouse. A man on board drove dark towards a bar before attacking his ex and new boyfriend with a machete.

“This morning, November 21, 2022 around 11 a.m., an attack with a weapon took place in a bar in Saint-Orens, causing three victims, including the own attacker“, indicates the prosecutor of the Republic of Toulouse in a press release. An investigation for attempted assassination on spouse is opened and designated to the research brigade of the gendarmerie of Villefranche-de-Lauragais.

The 37-year-old assailant first drove his car towards the facade of 52 avenue de Gameville in Saint-Orens-de-Gameville, south of Toulouse. The place is home to a bar-restaurant where his ex-girlfriend works as a waitress.

The man enters the establishment, “armed with a machete and a cutter“. He is wearing “several machete blows to her ex, hitting her in the head and back, and also wounding her new partner in the leg“.

Afterwards, he returns to his car to grab a fuel canister and sets fire to the back of the bar counter. His two victims, they take refuge in a nearby business. “The assailant slits his throat, causing the severance of important vessels“. Hospitalized in absolute urgency, his vital prognosis could no longer be engaged this evening.

The lives of the two victims, also taken care of immediately on the medical level, are no longer in danger. The ex-companion of the aggressor was able to return home, indicates the prosecutor. And his new companion will suffer from a broken leg.

“This aggression occurs within the framework of the separation of the couple, not accepted by the aggressor. The gendarmes of Saint-Orens had already intervened on October 30reveals the public prosecutor in Toulouse, following a collision between the respective vehicles of the separated couple.“

But after investigation and hearings of the two protagonists, the gendarmes had not been able to establish the voluntary nature of the clash. “The man had been prosecuted for a traffic offense of failure to control his vehicle“.

The public prosecutor specifies that the attacker should be able to be heard this Tuesday, November 22 by the gendarmes of the Villefranche-de-Lauragais research brigade, in charge of the investigation.