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During the night from Monday to Tuesday, the victim tried to escape from her attacker through the streets of the city, in vain. The latter beat him with indescribable violence. As of Wednesday, his vital prognosis was still in jeopardy.
Le Figaro Nice
In the middle of the night from Monday to Tuesday, around 3 a.m., the colorful streets of downtown Nice exchanged their relative softness for a plunge into darkness. For many minutes, a 53-year-old woman tried to outrun a demon chasing her, in vain. A man, twenty years her junior, who attacked her.
“For no apparent reason”, according to Damien Martinelli, the public prosecutor of Nice, this individual of Angolan nationality made his victim fall to the ground at Rue d’Italie, before beating her with indescribable savagery. At Figaro, a police source details: “After beating her, he jumped on her head with both feet several times.” It was the cries of a local resident that put an end to the beating and caused the accused to flee into the alleys of the city. When notified, emergency services discovered the victim dying on the tarmac. She was treated with a very serious vital prognosis and transported to Pasteur hospital in Nice. On Wednesday, she was still in the intensive care unit of the CHU in a state of absolute emergency.
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Regarding the attacker, he was found quickly after the events thanks to testimonies from local residents and through video surveillance images from the city. He was arrested by a crew from the Nice BAC a short distance from the scene of the attack and placed in police custody as part of a procedure opened for “attempted homicide”, entrusted to the Sûreté criminal brigade. departmental.
Furthermore, his identity would still not have been “formally established” and no prior history demonstrated, specifies the prosecutor. Investigators must now shed light on what could have led a man to attack the body of a defenseless woman with such brutality. “The investigations do not currently make it possible to establish links between the accused and the victim nor to consider the motive for the act”concludes the magistrate, specifying that a judicial investigation was opened on the charge of “attempted homicide” with requests for placement in pre-trial detention.