A man is suspected of having injured a 27-year-old woman and of having disembowelled her two-month-old child in Les Rousses (Jura). Both victims were transported to a hospital in Geneva, Switzerland.
The police arrested this Saturday, February 4, a man suspected of having injured a 27-year-old woman, as well as her infant. According to AFP, relayed by the Swiss newspaper The morning, the emergency services would have discovered the two victims in the morning, at their home in Les Rousses (Jura). The prosecution of Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) indicates thata helicopter transported them from the ski resort to a hospital in Genevain Switzerland, whose border is very close to Les Rousses.
According to Lionel Pascal, the public prosecutor, the mother suffers from “several wounds without obvious vital risk”. Her two-month-old baby is in much worse condition : it would have been “ripped open” by the suspect. The child, whose vital prognosis is engaged, is “under medical care”. According to Lionel Pascal, “Swiss doctors are struggling to (…) save” the babywhose injury is “particularly serious”. The father, who had already left for work at the time of the attack, is not suspected.
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A relative of the family
The arrested man is “a relative of the family that the latter had been hosting for several weeks”, explains the prosecutor in a press release, without specifying further the nature of the link between the suspect and the family. The suspicions of the investigators would have focused on him because of his absence from home. The Jura gendarmerie and the research section of Besançon have been entrusted “a flagrant investigation of the counts of attempted murder and attempted aggravated murder”continues the magistrate. The suspect was found on the afternoon of Saturday February 4, after a search involving 70 gendarmes, search dogs and a helicopter. Unknown to justice, he was taken into custody.