An employee and a Red Cross volunteer were injured Thursday, April 23 in Strasbourg when they intervened in a brawl in front of a hotel hosting homeless people, said a spokesman for the Red Cross on Friday.
These two people, a volunteer in their twenties and an employee of the Red Cross, intervened in an altercation at the foot of a hotel in the Place de la Gare requisitioned by the prefecture to house homeless people who are not reached by Covid-19.
This altercation opposed a priori a resident of the hotel and another person, who injured with a knife the resident and the two members of the Red Cross, said this spokesman.
Seriously injured, the young volunteer had to be operated but his vital prognosis was not engaged Thursday evening, he said, while the employee was more slightly injured.
The perpetrator could not be arrested Thursday evening, according to the Latest News from Alsace , the police did not want to provide more details on Friday.