An Essec student was seriously injured in the head and chest after being attacked with a chainsaw. His condition is now “stable”.
The student of Essec, a large business school, who attacked Wednesday in Cergy (Val-d’Oise) with a chainsaw his roommate, also a student at Essec, was hospitalized in a hospital psychiatric while his victim is in a state “steady“, learned AFP Friday, May 13 from the Pontoise prosecutor’s office.
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“The investigations are continuing within the framework of a judicial investigation (…) of the count of attempted murder“, said the prosecution. The facts took place around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the apartment where the two young men in their twenties lived, according to a police source. Both are students at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (Essec) in Cergy, one of the most prestigious business schools in France. The alert was given by the neighbors, who contacted the emergency services after seeing the victim in blood.
Firefighters confirmed to have intervened for a man “chainsaw injurydiscovered in the hall of the building, located in a street near the establishment. Seriously injured in the head and chest, he had been transported in absolute emergency to the Georges-Pompidou hospital in Paris. His condition is nowsteady“, Specified the parquet floor of Pontoise. The author, of Irish nationality, was arrested in the process at his home, and placed in police custody.
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According to the first elements of the investigation, he struck the victim several times, at “arms, chest and behind the neck“, retraced the police source. The assaulted roommate still managed to grab the tool and then threw it out the first floor window, according to his story. The facts took placefor no apparent reasonat this stage, she added, adding that she did not know whether the chainsaw was on or not when it was used. It is a small electric model whose guide – flat part around which the chain turns – measures 13 cm, detailed another police source.
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