Overview

• In the early hours of August 16, a sex worker was found fatally stabbed in a short-term rental on Rue Gabriel-Péri in Colombes and three others suffered knife wounds.
• The Nanterre prosecutor’s office has opened a voluntary homicide and attempted homicide investigation and placed an uninjured bodyguard and another sex worker in police custody.
• Around 6:30 p.m. the same day, two 20-year-old Venezuelan women were assaulted by three men in a separate rented apartment, one wielding scissors, and robbed of their phones and several hundred euros.
• Both Venezuelan victims sustained minor facial injuries and were treated at Louis-Mourier hospital.
• Investigators are reviewing witness statements, CCTV footage and forensic evidence as they pursue detained suspects and search for others involved.