The story begins with a trivial attempt to steal a cell phone in the Marseille metro. The victim, a young woman, manages to escape her two attackers by keeping her phone, but would have returned a little later in the metro with her companion, according to a police source
cited by France 3. However, the two thieves are still present in the station. An altercation quickly breaks out, and one of the attackers stabs the companion in the chest twice.
The two attackers then fled on a scooter. Managed to go up the escalator of the Notre-Dame-du-Mont station (6th) before collapsing, the young man of 25, severely affected, was taken care of by the marine firefighters of Marseille, before d ‘to be transported to the Timone hospital. He succumbed to his injuries overnight.
An investigation was entrusted to the judicial police, who were able to question the witnesses and the victim’s companion, and must use the video surveillance of the metro.