He had obviously followed his companion to her lover.
An episode of violence against a background of romantic rivalry gave rise to a series of stab wounds, in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) this Thursday, during which a man died and two people were injured .
According to the story spontaneously delivered to the investigators by the woman, aged about fifty and who called for help, she had just, driving her vehicle, to find her lover, younger than six years, on a parking at the edge of town.
His companion, a fifty-something, then "brutally opened the rear door of the vehicle" and inflicted "several stab wounds" on the lover, traces the prosecutor of Nancy, François Pérain.
The injured woman in the arm
The individual then turned the knife against himself to plant it "in his chest" where he was still when help arrived.
On their arrival, the firefighters noted the death of the lover targeted and hospitalized the man presented as the author of the stab wounds.
He will be placed in police custody "as soon as his state of health allows it", specifies François Pérain.
His companion, who has "defensive wounds on one hand and one forearm" after trying to intervene, was also hospitalized.