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Tuesday around 3 p.m., 23 firefighters were mobilized for “a person who attacked members of his family with a knife”, indicates the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of Loire-Atlantique.
The intervention took place in the center of Saint-Gildas-des-Bois, a town of 3,700 inhabitants located northwest of Nantes.
A young man, born in 2002, attacked his 17-year-old brother, his uncle, his mother, his grandparents, as well as a neighbor, confirms the gendarmerie, present on the spot.
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Among the victims, three men aged 17, 47 and 48 were redirected to Redon hospital as well as two women aged 67 and 70.
A seven-year-old boy, the little brother, was transported to the Saint-Nazaire University Hospital, shocked by the events.
Tuesday evening, the SDIS spoke of "slight injuries": their vital prognosis was not engaged.
A helicopter was also mobilized to transport one of the family members, and the SDIS of Ille-et-Vilaine also moved.
The respondent was arrested by the gendarmes in a garage adjoining the Gabriel Deshayes college, 700 m from the scene of the tragedy.
The gendarmerie specifies that he was placed in police custody before being hospitalized in psychiatry.
We still do not know the reasons that led him to act in this way.
An investigation is underway and witnesses are being heard.