The 50-year-old is said to have stabbed his father in the neck as he assaulted his mother.
A 53-year-old man suspected of having killed his 73-year-old father with a knife on Monday evening in Lyon has been taken into police custody, concordant sources reported to AFP on Tuesday, October 18. The homicide took place around 8:30 p.m. in an apartment in the 5th arrondissement.
“According to the first findings, a bladed weapon was used“, told AFP the departmental directorate of public security (DDSP) of the Rhône, confirming information from BFM Lyon. According to the local news channel, the 50-year-old allegedly stabbed his father in the neck as he assaulted his mother.
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The victim was indeedstabbed in the neck“, for its part specified the parquet floor of Lyon, without however certifying the motivations of the murderer, who recognized “immediately be responsible for the homicide“, while the wife of the septuagenarian as well as their daughter were present at the residence. The public prosecutor opened an investigation of the head of homicide on ascending and entrusted it to the Departmental Security of the Rhône.
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