An 18-year-old man tried on Wednesday to decapitate his roommate with a grinder, learns 20 minutes from a police source, confirming information from European 1. The facts occurred around 8:30 a.m., rue des Châteaux-Brûloirs, in Cergy, in the Val-d’Oise. According to the first elements of the investigation, the suspect, a man born in Ireland, first explained to the victim that he wanted to give him a gift and asked him to turn around and close his eyes. He then grabbed the tool and attacked the 26-year-old young man in the neck.
The victim managed to grab his attacker’s gun and threw it out the window, before fleeing. Aware of the arrival of the help, he was taken care of by the firefighters and then the doctors of the Samu who transported him to the Georges-Pompidou hospital, in Paris, in a very serious condition: he presented an abundant wound in the back of the neck, the carotid is visible and all the muscles are sectioned. His vital prognosis is engaged.
A free act?
As for his attacker, he was arrested without difficulty by the police dispatched to the scene. He immediately admitted to having wanted to kill his roommate, adding that there was no motive and that it was a gratuitous act. An investigation has been opened by the prosecution.