A 21-year-old young man has been indicted for intentional homicide by a person in a state of intoxication for the stabbing murder of a 47-year-old woman, killed in the middle of the street on Sunday in Nantes, the prosecutor announced on Wednesday. of the Republic of Nantes Renaud Gaudeul.
Early in the morning, this cleaning lady was waiting for the bus to go to work.
She was killed in front of the bus shelter.
Born in Nantes, this young single man, without a stable job and living in his parents' home in the same neighborhood as the victim, explains the facts by "an uncontrollable need for violence" after an alcoholic outing in a club. night.
Placed in police custody on Monday morning, he confessed to the facts on Tuesday after having disputed them for 24 hours.
He faces life imprisonment.
A "need for violence"
Returning “furious” and drunk from an evening in a nightclub which had ended too soon for his taste, the young man stopped in front of the bus shelter where the victim was.
She was a neighbor.
According to his version of the facts, he would have calmed down after talking with her, and would have gone home.
Before feeling a "need for violence" again and returning to the scene.
"He grabbed a kitchen knife and walked back to the level of the bus shelter, hoping, he said, that the woman would no longer be there," said Nantes prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul during of a press conference.
"But she was still there and he rushed towards her to stab her many times," he continued.
The victim then succumbed to his injuries around 6:30 am, and the autopsy carried out on Monday reported 23 wounds on the upper body, including several fatal ones in the neck.
His murder occurred three weeks after the rape of a 40-year-old woman on September 24 in downtown Nantes.
The case had sparked a debate on the security of the city and a strong emotion in his neighborhood.
