The drama took place in a street in Valenciennes.
A sexagenarian was stabbed to death in the middle of the street on Thursday in the city of Hainaut.
It is his ex-companion, aged 64, who is the main suspect of this attack and who has been taken into custody, indicates the Valenciennes prosecutor's office, confirming Friday information from the Voix du Nord.
This man "is not known either to the judicial institution or to the police services" and "there has never been the slightest complaint or complaint concerning him", added the public prosecutor of Valenciennes.
"At this stage, the conditions and circumstances in which the stabbing was carried out are being investigated", adds the same source, confirming that "the blow was carried while the victim", old 62 years old, "was in the street" in Valenciennes.
A relationship that had ended at the beginning of the year.
According to the local daily, the presence on the spot of a shopping cart filled with food, which she was bringing home, testifies that she had just done her shopping when she crossed the road of the alleged murderer. .
According to the first elements of the investigation, it also appears that the two protagonists would have had a relationship which had ended at the beginning of the year.
Witnesses heard screams and an altercation before discovering the victim at the foot of a bakery, stabbed.
“Please don't leave me alone.
Help me.
I just got attacked.
Then she began to repeat the word knife, ”testifies a woman to La Voix du Nord, deeply shocked by the scene.
The victim had time to call her daughter to give her the identity of her attacker.
