At the origin of the incident, a simple dispute for a history of Vélib '.
This Saturday afternoon, in the district of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, a Spanish tourist was injured in the throat after receiving a blow from a cutter, we learned from a judicial source.
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The victim was with his partner at a Vélib 'station, rue de Rivoli, intending to borrow a bicycle when an argument broke out with another user. “
There was a disagreement. The respondent and the Spanish tourist apparently wanted to take the same bike. The tension quickly rose and the man took out a cutter before hitting the tourist at the level of the throat
”, specifies the police source. Several passers-by intervened to apprehend the attacker while the police intervened. Injured, the tourist was taken care of by the emergency services and hospitalized but his life is not in danger.
The assailant, a man of Romanian origin, who was heavily alcoholic, was arrested by the police and taken into police custody. The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for
"attempted murder
", he told
Le Figaro
.