The emergency services intervened this Sunday around 7:30 am to take charge of a stabbed man, at the bar Le Mont Fleury, on the island of Nantes.
"Despite attempts at resuscitation, the victim was declared dead by the Samu doctor on the spot," the firefighters said in a statement.
The victim, Ibrahim Sidybe, a 35-year-old man, born in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, was stabbed in the heart by an individual in the street before taking refuge in Mont Fleury where he died, reports Ouest-France.
The firefighters specify that a 51-year-old man was also injured and then transported in a light condition to the Nantes University Hospital.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the judicial police of Nantes but the author of the stabbing could not be arrested, according to the regional daily.
"Tense" climate
When the firefighters arrived at the scene of the tragedy, the climate was "tense", due to "about thirty individuals" massed outside the bar.
Among those present at Mont Fleury at the time of the facts, some mentioned an altercation in a nightclub, located nearby.
"We are trying to find out if there is a link between the two, if they were the same people," a source close to the investigation told Ouest-France.
“Right now we have a lot of different versions.
We will have to sort it out.
"
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The regional daily was also able to collect the testimony of members of the victim's family.
“We were told he wanted to defend a friend.
A first time in a nightclub.
And they have been followed so far, ”says the victim's aunt.
Arrived in France five years ago, Ibrahim Sidybe was the father of an eleven-month-old baby girl.
