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.