Le Figaro Nantes
A shadow has passed over the Radiant City.
Thursday February 15, a 37-year-old man was attacked with a butcher knife, a machete and tear gas in a hall in the Cité radieuse de Rezé, in the southern conurbation of Nantes.
The hyperviolent attack took place in the early evening, around 9:30 p.m.
The attackers fled when help arrived.
There were
“5 or 6 of them,”
according to the police report.
The victim was discovered by emergency services in an extremely worrying state, reports the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service.
According to the Nantes public prosecutor's office, his
“serious injuries”
were caused by a bladed weapon.
Witnesses to the victim's cries, residents of the Cité radieuse reported to our colleagues at
Ouest France
that a corridor and an elevator in the building were covered in blood following the attack.
The 37-year-old man was rushed to Nantes University Hospital.
His life would no longer be in danger.
A cat food delivery man
“The local judicial police service (SLPJ) of Nantes has been seized of the investigation, which must first of all determine the circumstances of this attack,”
indicated Friday the public prosecutor of Nantes, Renaud Gaudeul.
The origin of the attack still remains unclear.
According to his first statements to the police, the victim - not domiciled in the Cité radieuse - indicated that he had come to deliver... cat food.
“A bizarre story;
It will be up to the investigators to clarify what precisely happened that evening,”
a police source told Le
Figaro
.
A previous hyperviolent attack had already shaken the Radiant City of Rezé in December 2020. At the time, six people were taken into police custody after entering an apartment to attack and torture a young man in front of his loved ones.
The suspects, among whom were several minors, were then prosecuted for the counts of “organized gang armed robbery”, “act of torture and barbarity”, “kidnapping” and, finally, “sequestration”.