Overview

• Firefighters found a 24-year-old woman gravely wounded around 8:30 p.m. in a Chorier-Berriat apartment, with a stab injury to the heart and at least one to the face, and she died despite emergency care.
• A bloodied steak knife was seized from the kitchen and a 20-year-old neighbor was arrested and placed in custody on suspicion of inflicting the fatal wounds.
• Prosecutors indicate a likely dispute between families or neighbors in the same building as the motive, and confirm both the victim and the suspect had prior contacts with justice.
• According to her lawyer, the suspect began giving explanations in custody and claims she feared for her life and had lost her apartment key, assertions that remain unverified as inquiries continue.
• In a separate case in Marseille’s 15th arrondissement, a man in his twenties was stabbed and struck with a handgun butt and was hospitalized with life‑threatening injuries, according to police sources.