A man stabbed a social worker involved in the placement of his child this Thursday in Brive in Corrèze, authorities said. The facts occurred in the early morning in the premises of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), which houses those of child welfare, dependent on the departmental council.
According to the prosecutor's office, the 30-year-old social worker from the foster care service was hit several times by a homemade weapon that could be associated with "a spear" as she began her working day. "The aggressor pursued his victim from the car park to the premises of the CCI," said the public prosecutor in Brive, Émilie Abrantes.
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"The victim suffers from five wounds, two of which are significant on the head, requiring the installation of 12 and 13 stitches. She is in shock," the prosecutor added. She was transported to Brive Hospital. "The news about her physical health is reassuring and we express our full support for this young woman," Pascal Coste, president of the Corrèze departmental council, said in a statement.
The victim was following the perpetrator's case
The suspect, a forty-year-old who is not known to the justice, was placed in custody at the Brive police station. The challenge to a placement measure and access could be at the origin of his act, the victim following the file of his aggressor. The prosecutor's office opened an investigation on the charge of "attempted intentional homicide committed on a person in charge of a public service mission" and entrusted the investigations to the judicial police of Limoges, co-seized with the Brive police station.
Last November, a similar attack took place in Pont-Sainte-Maxence in the Oise. A woman armed with a knife fearing the placement of her son had attacked a civil servant.
The departmental council of Corrèze announced to close its services Friday morning from 9 am to 10 am "to challenge the general public on the essential respect due to public officials".
