Marseille: a man stabbed to death, his alleged murderer slits his throat before his arrest
Confused and ultra-violent scene this Tuesday evening in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille. In the famous Panier district, rue Jean Galland, a woman discovered her husband lying in a pool of blood, reports France 3. Aged 53, he was fatally stabbed and succumbed to his injuries in his studio.
It is just 7 p.m. when the police, whose police station is nearby, are alerted to this horror scene. Faced with the gravity of the situation, “they all left on foot, running”, even specifies an official to our colleagues from the regional daily Provence.
According to neighbors, the alleged perpetrator, a forty-year-old, would have fled to the well-known Sainte Marie-Majeure cathedral called the Major. He was defeated by these witnesses, one of whom would have opened fire according to France 3, until the arrival of the police and a new burst of madness.
“Self-harm at the time of the arrest”
As the police were going to arrest him, he would have turned his weapon against him and then slit his throat under the eyes of residents totally amazed and shocked by the scene. Despite the first aid from the police, who disarmed him, “his vital prognosis is engaged,” said a police source on local TV.
The police headquarters confirms thate “the potential aggressor has turned the weapon against him and that he is in serious condition”. He was hospitalized. Shortly after, the representative of the public prosecutor who went to the site confirmed “that it was a stabbing homicide”. “A man was arrested, and that he self-harmed at the time of the arrest”, specifies the parquet floor to France 3.
As the investigation begins, no link has yet been formally established between the victim and his alleged murderer, even if it may be a family matter, according to La Provence. The latter is not known, as is the reason for this attack, according to the first elements of the investigation. The terrorist connotation would be removed. The departmental security teams were seized by the Marseille prosecutor’s office.