Two women were stabbed on Sunday October 18, near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, during an altercation linked to a dog and accompanied by racist insults, according to the statements of one of the victims to AFP.
Two other women are in custody Tuesday, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
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Relayed tens of thousands of times on social networks in 24 hours, a video allows you to hear dog cries and barks.
"
Yesterday evening on the Champ de Mars at the foot of the Eiffel Tower two women were stabbed, one of them wore the headscarf,
" wrote one of the Internet users on Monday evening who shared it.
Several Internet users relay this video by denouncing the silence of the media on an attack that they qualify as Islamophobic, a few days after the assassination on Friday of Samuel Paty, the beheaded teacher near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) .
The assault was confirmed in a press release by the police headquarters on Tuesday: "
On October 18, around 8 p.m., the police intervened following a police-rescue call for two women wounded by knives in Champ-de-Mars
" .
An investigation for attempted voluntary homicide has been opened, confirmed the Paris prosecutor's office.
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This attack would follow a dispute between four women because of a dog not kept on a leash
", explains the prefecture.
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We were a family, five adults and four children,
" told AFP one of the victims, Kenza, who also sent AFP a photograph of a report drawn up the day after the attack by the one of his relatives.
According to Kenza, her sister and cousin wore a veil at the time, but not her.
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We were walking and there were dogs approaching us.
My sister asked one of the owners, two women, if she could keep the dogs away from the children
”.
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She told us' don't piss us off, we've been here for 4pm.
You dirty Arabs had to come and piss us off, '
”says Kenza.
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She approached my sister, it was I who intervened.
She punched me on the top of the head at ear level, I don't know if it was with the knife, then she stabbed me in the abdomen
”, continues -she.
Paris firefighters confirmed to AFP on Tuesday that they had intervened “
around 8:50 pm
” Sunday on the Champ-de-Mars, to help “
two women
”.
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My sister reacted immediately and grabbed her from behind.
I walked away and then stretched out on the ground because I couldn't stand up anymore.
They were two on my cousin who received several stab wounds,
”she says.
By mid-afternoon Tuesday, the victims had not filed a complaint according to Kenza, who explained "
wait to see the police
".
