A 21-year-old young man has been indicted for intentional homicide by a person in a state of intoxication for the stabbing murder of a 47-year-old woman, killed in the middle of the street on Sunday morning in Nantes, announced Wednesday the public prosecutor of Nantes Renaud Gaudeul.
Born in Nantes, this young single man, without a stable job and living in his parents' home in the same neighborhood as the victim, explains the facts by "
an uncontrollable need for violence
" after an alcoholic outing in a club. night.
Placed in police custody on Monday morning, he confessed to the facts on Tuesday after having disputed them for 24 hours, and faces life imprisonment.
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Returning “
furious
” and drunk by car from an evening in a nightclub which had ended too early for his taste, the young man stopped in front of the bus shelter where the victim was, a neighbor who was waiting for the bus. to go to the health facility where she worked as a cleaner.
He explains that he calmed down after talking to her and going home, before feeling a "
need for violence
" again and returning to the scene.
"
He grabbed a kitchen knife and walked back to the level of the bus shelter, hoping, he said, that the woman would no longer be there
," said Nantes prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul during of a press conference.
"
But she was still there and he rushed towards her to stab her many times,
" he continued.
The victim then succumbed to his injuries around 6:30 am, and the autopsy carried out on Monday reported 23 wounds on the upper body, including several fatal ones in the neck.
His murder occurred three weeks after the September 24 rape of a 40-year-old woman in downtown Nantes, sparking a debate about city security and strong emotion in his neighborhood.
