A 31-year-old woman died in the night from Wednesday to Thursday in hospital following injuries sustained in an apartment in the suburbs of Metz (Moselle) The two people who were in the apartment with her are in police custody for murder, announced the magistrate. One of them was unknown to the justice services, while the other has already been convicted several times.

An autopsy on the victim's body will take place on Friday. It was allegedly a “drunk evening that tragically went off the rails”.