Three young men, including a minor, were stabbed to death in the center of the western French city of Angers on Saturday night. Three others are slightly injured. A suspected Sudanese refugee was arrested by the police. This is reported by the French media.
The attack took place around three in the morning on the Coeur de Maine promenade. According to prosecutor Érik Bouillard, it is not yet completely clear how exactly the murderous incident took place. The triple murder was preceded by an argument about listening to music and a subsequent fight. It took place in several stages and ended shortly before three in the morning when the suspect returned to the scene with a knife and killed three boys aged 16, 18 and 20 with stab wounds to the chest. The other three are slightly injured. A 32-year-old Sudanese suspect was arrested and taken into custody.
“Police first intervened around 1 a.m. ” after receiving a call from a young girl who was being harassed by the suspect. “But when the police arrived, the man was gone and it was calm,” Bouillard told AFP late Saturday afternoon. A little later, he “returns again and is quite clearly rejected by the members of the group … He returns a third time, towards the group, this time with a knife,” the prosecutor described the situation. “The argument was not connected to violence, as the authorities initially reported,” the prosecutor said.
“He (the suspect) is currently hospitalized and in custody, but he is not in a condition to testify at this time,” Bouillard said.
According to the franceinfo server, the Sudanese is a political refugee and was already known to the police. He is registered in the criminal file for drunken driving, violence and property damage. At the time of his arrest, the man initially gave a false identity.
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