A man of Sudanese origin was stabbed to death and another seriously injured on Sunday in Niort by an individual who was arrested, we learned on Monday August 29 from the Poitiers prosecutor’s office and the prefecture. .
The facts took place around 8:00 p.m. near a very lively square in the center of Niort, on the occasion of “a game of cardsbetween members of aSudanese community“, according to the prosecution.
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During an altercation between the participants, one of them wore “a stab wound to a first victim», aged 32, who managed to flee. Hospitalized in Niort, she is in a statevery worrying“, indicated for its part the prefecture. In front of dozens of witnesses, the perpetrator then stabbed a second victim, aged 29, who died of his injuries. She received “multiple stab wounds in the chest area“, According to the prefecture.
42 years old,the respondent was arrested by the police a few moments later, at the scene, a knife in his hand“. He was immediately taken into the chief’s custody.of assassination“, abounded the prosecution which also indicates that the reasons for the altercation”are ignored at this stage“. The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of Poitiers. The prosecution of Niort also relinquished the case for the benefit of the criminal center of Poitiers. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.
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