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Four Separate Knife Attacks Rock France Over Weekend

Rapid arrests and medical exams have advanced multiple criminal probes and raised fresh questions about enforcement of removal orders for foreign nationals.

Overview

  • In Marseille on Saturday a 40-year-old mother was slashed at her home in front of her five children and was taken to intensive care before being discharged after treatment.
  • Police located and arrested the suspected attacker, a man in his early 40s who fled by train to Paris and is reported to be an Algerian national subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF).
  • In Valréas gendarmes found a 52-year-old woman dead early Saturday and placed her 32-year-old son in custody after he admitted the killing; a medico-legal exam found a deep throat wound and an autopsy has been scheduled.
  • In Louvres a man attacked three neighbours with a large kitchen cleaver over a noise dispute, two victims were hospitalized and the suspect was detained on suspicion of attempted murder.
  • A brawl in Compiègne left a man gravely injured on Saturday morning and he died Sunday; three people were placed in custody, the case has been reclassified as homicide and prosecutors will seek pretrial detention.