A 34-year-old man, bloodied and with several stab wounds after an attack in Germany, near the border, managed to escape to France by clinging to the hood of a car, he said. -we learned on Friday from the Sarreguemines public prosecutor's office (Moselle).
The victim was allegedly attacked with a knife, during the night from Monday to Tuesday, by three people, in a bar in Grosse-Rosselle (Großrosseln), a small German town located a few kilometers from France, the AFP the public prosecutor of Sarreguemines, Olivier Glady, confirming information from RTL.
According to the story he gave to the gendarmes, the Frenchman was in a casino when several individuals attacked him, indicates RTL.
It could be a settling of scores based on drug trafficking funds.
Injured and presenting "several stab wounds", the man managed to "stop a vehicle" driven by a person unknown to him, then clung to its hood.
He traveled thus perched on the hood of the vehicle “four, five kilometers”, continued the magistrate.
His attackers would be French
It was on the French side of the border that the gendarmes discovered the bloodied man, in Morsbach (Moselle).
He was then transported to Forbach hospital, and “in view of the injuries, an appointment at the Medical-Judicial Unit was planned”, but his life is not in danger.
The facts took place in Germany but they were denounced by the German authorities to the French authorities, in particular because the victim was French and obviously so were her attackers.
The Sarreguemines public prosecutor's office will therefore resume the investigation.
The attackers also reportedly fled on foot towards France according to Le Républicain Lorrain.
In the municipalities to the east of the Moselle, bordering Germany, police and judicial cooperation is common between the two countries.