A 24-year-old man, suspected of having stabbed a 74-year-old man in the back with a knife in the back last Saturday in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), was imprisoned, the Bobigny prosecution said on Thursday. the AFP.
The suspect, arrested on Monday and indicted on Wednesday for murder and attempted murder, was remanded in custody, the source said.
Around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, the victim was stabbed in the back, causing a deep wound, a police source told AFP.
Despite the intervention of the emergency services, she died of her injuries.
The facts took place at one of the entrances to the Georges-Valbon departmental park, the third largest park in Ile-de-France.
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The day before, the suspect had already injured another person, using the same modus operandi of assault with a knife, said the prosecution.
Of Romanian nationality, he had been the subject of an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) in September, which had been executed.
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He had been taken back to Romania after his release from prison
”, explained this source.
The investigation, entrusted to the judicial police of the department, is now continuing under the aegis of an investigating judge.