Near Toulouse. The assailant attacks his ex-girlfriend and his new spouse before lighting a fire
Important gendarmerie device deployed this Monday, November 21, 2022 in Saint-Orens, near Toulouse (Upper Garonne). At the stroke of 10 a.m., the firefighters were called to intervene on a fire at a store on Avenue de Gameville.
While the fire was quickly brought under control, the firefighters then discovered three victims who had been attacked by a 35-year-old individual. Two SMUR vehicles and three ambulances are called in as reinforcements. Two victims are placed in absolute emergency, the other in relative emergency. The aggressor is supposed to be controlled by the gendarmerie.
According to the first elements, the aggressor would be one of the wounded. Arriving in a whirlwind with his vehicle, hitting the terrace of the St’O bar, he would have attacked his ex-companion waitress in this establishment, and his new companion with a machete. It was then that he should have set fire to the establishment which used the firefighters this morning, before cutting his throat with his machete. “The individual was visibly coming out of police custody in Balma and came to attack his ex, she was seriously injured and took refuge in a hairdresser” specifies the first deputy of Saint Orens Jean Pierre Godefroy still in shock, the respondent would have supposed to set fire to the establishment probably with fuel.
Transported to the emergency room, his vital prognosis is not engaged. The seriously injured waitress would have been hit in the head and in the side, her companion in the leg according to the first elements collected on the spot.
The police investigation is now beginning. She will have to clarify the circumstances of this attack.